Re: Alpha in VolumetoGeom

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From: Roy Hashimoto
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 17:37

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In article <1993Jan7.151604.19780@news.acns.nwu.edu> williams@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Gus Williams) writes:
>Is there anyway to use the VolumeToGeom module without Alpha bitplanes?

It isn't alpha planes that you need, it's blend hardware.  You can write
a little program to find out if you have the proper hardware with a call
to getgdesc().  To the best of my knowledge, it is not available on PIs.

Roy Hashimoto
hashimoto@sgi.com

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