<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As hinted in my previous email, we are going support inherited color support. For example if you want to have all your surfaces colored white and your edges colored blue - you will be able to select the edges node in the model tree and set its color to blue - as a result, all edges will be by default blue. If you then select edge 3 and set it to yellow you will have all your edges but edge 3 blue and edge 3 will be yellow - if you then change the edges node color to say red - all edges but edge 3 will be red and edge 3 will remain yellow.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The issue this brings up is how to easily identify to the user that a model entity has an explicit color or is inheriting the color from the model tree.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Below are two possible solutions:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Change the shape of the “color swatch" associated with the model entity - in this case a rounded color swatch indicates that the entity is using an inherited color (in this case white) and a square shape indicates that it has an explicit color </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. keep the shape of the color swatch the same and use a hash pattern to indicate the color is inherited - a variation of this could be is to have just the icon (no border) to indicate that the color is inherited.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Comments?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bob</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Robert M. O'Bara, MEng.<br class="">Assistant Director of Scientific Computing<br class=""><br class="">Kitware Inc.<br class="">28 Corporate Drive<br class="">Suite 101<br class="">Clifton Park, NY 12065<br class=""><br class="">Phone: (518) 881- 4931</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><img alt="Inline image 1" width="480" height="481" class="" apple-inline="yes" id="DAD79300-F0FB-4641-8CD6-638F2BED5503" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:ii_15b01ade9d6a4bdd">-- <img alt="Inline image 3" width="480" height="482" class="" apple-inline="yes" id="72A27CB3-42EC-4A18-94E2-C054A17AF579" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:ii_15b01b0777bd0c99"><br class=""><div class="gmail-m_2700004361376696741gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Best regards<div class="">Haocheng</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Haocheng LIU</div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Kitware, Inc.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">R&D Engineer</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">21 Corporate Drive</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Phone: </span><a href="tel:(518)%20881-4421" value="+15188814443" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank" class="">518-881-4421</a><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div>
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