One LAST observation -- if you uncheck the VLC Media Player's
tools...preferences...Video...Display...[x] Accelerated video output
box, then the effect goes away.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Robert Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, this is some bizarre bug in the video system. It turns out that if the
> background is set to 0x00000001, this odd transparent effect is created. You
> can do this with any version of Jmol -- I just effected it with Jmol 10.x.11
> (June, 2006).
>
> Prior to Jmol 11.3.39, what you do is use
>
> background [0,0,1]
>
> post-11.3.39, what you do is use
>
> background [0,0,0]
>
> That's because starting in version 11.3.39, Jmol adds 1 to the user's
> chosen background color so as to make it (relatively) unique.
>
> probably more interesting is to use:
>
> background white
> color atoms black # or [0,0,1] for older versions
>
> Then it's the atoms that get the video!
>
> So, there you have it.
>
> Somehow "background 0x00000001" is a special video-mode background. (I
> guess I wasn't the only one to select that as a "special" value.) Apparently
> the video card uses that pixel value to put in place the video rather than
> the image. The designer must have figured that no one would use 0x00000001
> for a color. Go figure!
>
> I'm guessing this doesn't work on all video cards.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
>
>
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