Soft Transparency

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virtualarchitectures
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Soft Transparency

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Is there a plugin or shader that would enable a 'soft transparency' effect for pointclouds in CloudCompare similar to that outlined in the following paper: http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/Publications/2018/SPDCG18/

The ability to display structures with this kind of transparency would be extremely useful. Otherwise is there a means to achieve a similar effect with existing functionality? Unfortunately I'm not familiar with programming shaders.
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Re: Soft Transparency

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As usual, actually reaching the state of what is displayed in these scientific articles is much harder that one would expect... You have to compute specific scalar fields and then implement a 3 pass rendering pipeline :|

Unless they provide some code it would be quite hard to actually integrate that in CC... do they?
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