[vtkusers] Coloring Cells/Points via scalars - i only get dark colors?

Daniel Zuidinga daniel.zuidinga at rwth-aachen.de
Wed Jan 16 10:20:21 EST 2008


i got the solution.
of course i have to multiplicate my COLORSURFACE values with 255 and 
neither with 128 nor with 256(!)


Daniel Zuidinga wrote:
> Hello vtkUsers,
>
> i coloring my my Points on a surface with:
>
>    surface.GetPointData().SetScalars(scalars);
>
> the Scalars are declared as vtkUnsignedCharArray:
>
>    scalars = new vtkUnsignedCharArray();
>    scalars.SetTuple3(l * w + k, COLORSURFACE[0]*128.0f, 
> COLORSURFACE[1]*128.0f, COLORSURFACE[2]*128.0f);
>
> they include data between 0..128;
>
> now i get only dark colors. 128,128,128 doesn´t give me for example 
> white.
>
> How can i use also lighter colors?
>
> Regards
> Daniel
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