Transparent media such as air, water, glass, and clear plastic allow light and images to clearly pass through the material. Translucent materials, on the other hand, allow light to pass through, but clear images cannot be seen through them. For example, frosted glass and thin paper are translucent because they let some light through, but are not transparent because you cannot see clearly through them.

Fiberglass panels are translucent, glass is transparent. Both transmit light, but you can not see details through a translucent panel like you can glass or thermoplastic sheeting. Likewise, you do not get direct sunlight, glare, or as many UV rays through a translucent panel.

A transparent physical material shows objects behind it as unobscured and doesn't reflect light off its surface. Clear glass is a nearly transparent material. Although glass allows most light to pass through unobscured, in reality it also reflects some light. A perfectly transparent material is completely invisible. A translucent physical material shows objects behind it, but those objects are obscured by the translucent material.

These categories are somewhat qualitative. We ask for your best judgement. The distinction is easiest to explain for an overcast day. If you cannot even tell where the Sun is, you have opaque clouds. If you can see the Sun but it is just a brighter spot that does not hurt your eyes, you have translucent clouds. If the Sun can be seen as a bright circle you have transparent clouds.

If you want blending to occur after the texture has been applied, then use the OpenGL blending feature. Try this: glEnable (GL_BLEND); glBlendFunc (GL_ONE, GL_ONE); You might want to use the alpha values that result from texture mapping in the blend function. If so, (GL_SRC_ALPHA,GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA) is always a good function to start with. However, if you want blending to occur when the primitive is texture mapped (i.e.

Translucent panels are light transmitting. OPAQUE panels are non light transmitting. However, no fiberglass panel should be considered to be light excluding (such as for darkrooms) as glass fibers always have the potential of allowing small amounts of light through. Opaque FRP panels may contain specific fillers to insure low light transmission.

In the paper industry, "vellum" is a term used to describe a paper with a smooth surface, not the degree of transparency. On our site we've used the more correct term, "translucent", to describe trasparent paper and envelopes.

The instruments on board the satellites are able to detect the visual opacity of the clouds by measuring the optical depth of the cloud. The optical depth is a measure of the visual or optical thickness of a cloud. Unlike height, it is not measured in meters or feet; but is nondimensional. Usually we can tell when the satellites are not functioning because they will give us weird information.

Transparent stains have considerably less pigment than opaque stains, in order to allow the grain of the wood to show through. Opaque stains obliterate or hide the grain; and because of the added protection of the wood from UV radiation, will last longer before needing to be re-applied.

There is no difference in the role or the functioning of these proxies. In fact they are in many cases the same machine. The only difference is that you do not have to enter specific network settings or any configuration for your HTTP traffic to be captured by a transparent proxy. Because they are built as part of the network architecture, all port 80 traffic must flow through them.

If your image doesn't have an alpha channel, add one with Layers->Add Alpha Channel. Select the area you want to clear (if not the whole image). To change everything of a particular color transparent, pick Select->By Color... and click on the color in the image you want to replace. Then select Edit->Clear. That's it. Any dithering, blurring, or related effects against the color you replace will be against the original color.

All melt and pour soap base is clear. It is the addition of titanium dioxide that makes transparent soap base white or opaque.

Translucent vinyl skin tone carries less pigment than our regular light vinyl (and is thereby slightly lighter) and has a translucent "depth" to it that gives it the most life-like look of any vinyl available. This vinyl is less doll-like and more life-like!

A term for databases that must protect some information while revealing other data. In other words, a phrase to capture how the database must exist somewhere between translucency and opacity.

PageMaker now lets you create a mask of any shape, and if you use the polygon frame tool you can draw any shape you can create with straight lines, and fill the shape with a picture. You can do the same with circles and ovals. But to create a complex cut-out you need to do it in a program like Photoshop and create a "clipping path". You can do this in creating an EPS file, a TIFF or a JPEG.

No. Apple sold a translucent clear Newton, and the frequently forgotten eMate is also partially translucent. The iMac is the first completely translucent desktop Macintosh. One reader, Philip Machanick, mentioned that in addition to the translucent Newton and eMate, the button used to unlatch the Power Macintosh 8600, 9600, and G3 tower cases is a translucent aqua color. So perhaps Apple's Design Group wanted to create translucent cases before the iMac but their creativity was stifled.

Update: Now that the second Power Macintosh G3 series has been officially released by Apple, it has been confirmed that future Apple hardware will be translucent, most likely at least for the next few years. However, Apple decided to do away with the color of the original Apple Studio Display, and go with blue and white, just like the original iMac, at least initially. The original answer remains below for "historical" reference.

Most shiny or translucent objects will create noise (bounceback) in your scans. It is best to coat an object with a white spray or coating. Many users use welders crack spray (Magnaflux) and others use Dr. Scholl's Foot Powder Spray

Transparent tunneling is a method for VPN clients to pass encrypted IPsec traffic through firewalls and network/port address translation devices (nat/pat) which are commonly found on the network. If you are behind a firewall, or are not on the UF network and have a private IP address (10.x.x.x, 172.16-31.x.x, or 192.168.x.x) you will need to use transparent tunneling. Luckily, the UF distribution of the vpn client has it turned on by default. I have a home network.

The benefit of the transparent plastic bag is that makes it easy to display and inspect the liquids you are carrying, while protecting your carry-on baggage against leaks.

The opacity property enables you to specify a level of transparency for the form and its controls. See the .NET documentation for Form.Opacity for differences between Opacity and TransparencyKey properties. Opacity only works with Windows 2000 and later...

With TucanBackup, no new interface needs to be learned. The IT manager simply points TucanBackup at the folders that need to backup on the various file-servers in the different sites. Users & applications change nothing and just keep working as they did before enabling TucanBackup - no need to change anything. You can share the folders over the LAN and set all permissions exactly the same as before.

For each individual case, ombudsmann.de sets up an electronic file, which will include the entire correspondence and documents of the case. This file is accessible by both parties through their personal access code at any time during the procedure.

A specially rendered GIF image that takes on the background color of a web page. This produces a more professional looking page.

We can make one color and only one color Transparent. This is normally the background color. This is not obvious to the eye, you will still see the color.When the file was saved as a "Transparent GIF File" (This only works with gif files) it put a code in the file. When your browser sees this code it totally ignores that color, it's not there. The result is the text or picture seems to be floating. What are some good Programs to have that are free? 1.

OptusNet uses proxies and caching as part of the managed network solution that we have always raised as the benchmark for internet service. As you can see from the explanation above, caching will improve the users experience of the internet, by locally storing the sites that would normally take a lot longer to load due to the many potential bottlenecks in the internet.

You can't, but I'm sure there are tons of free downloadable programs on the Internet that can transparentize images.

Most properly configured printers supported by Windows can properly handle printing of non-transparent overlays used in STATISTICA graphs; see the previous topic for advice on how to configure the printer driver. This setting can be adjusted in the Page/Output Setup dialog, and the minimum line thickness setting entered there will override any smaller line thickness settings specified for individual graph components.

The Service Manager implements powerful dynamic discovery capabilities to fully abstract consumer applications from any knowledge of service endpoint location, or fabric policy.

This is an SDL bug. Specifically, SDL is using a 32-bit visual provided by Xgl, which causes pixels to be specified in RGBA format. SDL has a bug that makes it (wrongly) specify alpha blending for its windows. You can work around this by doing 'XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1; export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS' before running QEMU.