Pelton-Turbine bucket stress test (again)

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Comment by Simon Klopp on December 24, 2010 at 9:48am

I think it is quite important that the semi-transparent and/or the x-ray mode should also work. As you see, we are developing hydropower components, and much parts are some kind of hollow! Especially at the three pictures I added at the discussion "Graphic glitch" (a variable water jet nozzle), you cannot see what will happen insider the bend and pipe. It was pure luck that I have seen some stress regions inside the bend by looking visually into the holes!

Regarding to the colors: Maybe it is possibe that the advanced user can  add some textures himself?

 

Comment by Michael Freytag on December 23, 2010 at 2:49pm

Any success with semi-transparency previously was purely coincidental... I've only just become aware of this X-ray display mode.

In the present version of SnS, the colors are applied by texture mapping since it provides much more flexibility in coloring.  I'll have to investigate further to see about the interaction between the X-ray display mode and semi-transparent texture mapping.

Comment by Simon Klopp on December 21, 2010 at 7:31pm

Michael:

Maybe some lighter color schemes, like bright Cyan to bright Magenta. Or, a gayscale color scheme. Just for the users that have no color printer (like I)! I think it is hard to see the different colors on a grayscale printout, especially your quite "dark" blue colors!

 

Another point: Maybe I´m wrong but on the last version, when you display a part in semi-transparent, and run SNS, you could see the results also in semi-transparent, and that was quite good to work with. Now, it shouldn´t be possible!?!

Comment by Michael Freytag on December 21, 2010 at 1:58pm

Simon,

Thanks for the compliments.  Are there any other color schemes that might be of interest?  Except for the two rainbow schemes, the included ones were chosen somewhat arbitrarily.

~Michael