How can I apply variable transparency to a plot using scatter3?

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Steffen Adria
Steffen Adria 2011-7-4
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I'm producing a 3D model, and interior points happen to be more interesting to me. I have a 4-column matrix representing (x,y,z,intensity), and I'm most interested in the high-intensity points; currently they're coloured by intensity. Can I make it so that the transparency of low-intensity points is increased (but I need them to still be visible)?
Thanks
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Steffen Adria
Steffen Adria 2011-7-14
I have found a solution! I scaled both the colour and *size* of my points so that the outer, less intense points are smaller than the inner, more intense points I want to see, so I can see past the outer layer!

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Patrick Kalita
Patrick Kalita 2011-7-5
MATLAB doesn't allow you to control the transparency of markers.
If you don't have a tremendous number of data points you could try drawing small spherical surfaces at each data point. Then you could control the transparency of those surfaces. Here's a File Exchange submission that might help you get started.
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson 2017-6-4
In R2014a and earlier, scatter3() uses patches. In R2014b and later, it does not.
In R2014b and later, there is MarkerFaceAlpha property that can be used to set a single transparency for all of the points.
In R2014b and later, to adjust each of the transparencies individually, then if h is the handle returned by calling scatter3(),
N = h.MarkerHandle.FaceColorData;
N(4,:) = new transparency data, expressed as integer values from 0 to 255
h.MarkerHandle.FaceColorData = N;

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Lockenlui
Lockenlui 2018-12-27
编辑：Lockenlui 2018-12-27
You can use
h = scatter3(..)
alpha = 0.5;
set(h, 'MarkerEdgeAlpha', alpha, 'MarkerFaceAlpha', alpha)
in order to set the transparancy for the edge as well as the face of the marker.
bym
bym 2011-7-4
I am not sure I understand the question, perhaps
slice()
would be useful?
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Steffen Adria
Steffen Adria 2011-7-4
I need to see the whole thing at once in 3D. I need to see the exterior most of all, but I'm also trying to see some points that might be lying just inside the surface. It's fuzzy data so some noise is present and I'm not sure where the boundary between empty space and the object is. I'm expecting that an intense core will be present under a thin layer of low-intensity points; I want to be able to see both.
KRUNAL
KRUNAL 2014-8-21
Were you able to find a solution to the above question Steffen. If so, can you please post your code here

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