Hi Cam,
For some reason, netscape won't quote your email in this
reply, so I'll just refer to you questions by number.
Question 1. This sounds like a Java3D bug that I have
encountered before, when NX, NY and NZ are not all equal.
To comment more I'd have to reproduce the bug, but I
wasn't able to compile your attached program because of
the "import imago.model".
Questions 2, 3 and 4. These can all be addressed by
changing your data. Currently, you have many FlatFields
with MathTypes ((x, y, z) -> NAME_density). Then you
map the various NAME_density RealTypes to color components.
VisAD depicts each FlatField with a different set of
colored polygons. So rather than the colors being blended,
the polygons fight in the Z-buffer givng all sorts of weird
effects. Try combining all you FlatFields into one
FlatField with MathType:
((x, y, z) -> (NAME1_density, ..., NAMEn_density))
and then mapping the various NAME_density RealTypes to
color components. The colors should be merged.
Question 5. To add your own branch to VisAD's Java3D
scene graph, try this:
DisplayRendererJ3D dr
(DisplayRendererJ3D) display.getDisplayRenderer();
TransformGroup trans = dr.getTrans();
Then you can add a Java3D BranchGroup to trans (only a
BranchGroup, since trans is live).
Note that by using mappings to Display.Shape, or by using
various VisAD MathTypes, your can create a wide variety of
discrete geometries within VisAD.
Cheers,
Bill
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