Re: does facealpha work?

[Francesco Potortì]

>I have tried fill() and 'FaceAlpha" property, but cannot obtain the
>results I want.  By changing facelpha i can change the colour, which
>becomes paler, but not transparent, as the filled areas below cannot be
>seen.  I use the gnuplot backend.
>
>Is there anything obvious that I should know?  Do I need to provide an
>example or is this a known problem?

Here is an example:

hold on
p1 = patch([0 0 2], [0 2 1], "r")
p2 = patch([2 2 0], [0 2 1], "g")
hold off

This draws two partially overlapping triangles of different colours, as
expected.  Now I set the facealpha property on both to make them
partially transparent:

set (p1, "facealpha", 0.2)
set (p2, "facealpha", 0.2);

Both colours become less saturated, but they remain opaque.  Is this a
bug?

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