Wish: pixelcolor sensitive analyze data please

[Holo]

Hi guys,
we usually work in a white environment and Rhino’s default material is white, so when ever we run dir etc. it is quite difficult to see the data:

So would it be possible to make them view context sensitive and swap from white to black if the object/view is bright in color?

For us it would be better if they always were black or red instead, but I could not find any color settings for it.

[Ben_B]

Yes, great idea - this would also be great with linework too!

Black linework should turn white on a dark background and vice versa, since we are also constantly switching between display modes.

Perhaps there could be a colour choice separate from the typical palette for this?

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hei Jørgen -

@Holo

For us it would be better if they always were black or red instead, but I could not find any color settings for it.

The color of the normal vector in the Dir command is gotten from the Tracking lines option in Rhino Options -> Appearance -> Colors. Which command are you using?

@Ben_B

Black linework should turn white on a dark background and vice versa, since we are also constantly switching between display modes.

Ben, we have that feature request on the list as RH-65387 and Steve created a “BlackWhiteSwitcher” prototype plug-in that you can find information about here:

What is the chance of Rhino getting a White/Black (Model/Paper) layer color like AutoCad?

We can probably implement this white/black switch as a display mode option instead of modifying layers. I made a basic prototype for this that runs in Rhino 7, but to really cover all of the geometry types and keep performance up we’ll need to eventually add this to Rhino 8. Run the PackageManager command in Rhino and install the BlackWhiteSwitcher plug-in. There is only one command in this plug-in called BlackWhiteSwitcher. This command toggles the feature on/off and will try to swap black an…

-wim

[Ben_B]

@wim

Steve created a “BlackWhiteSwitcher” prototype plug-in that you can find information about here

Ah that’s great, thanks! I didn’t realise that this had been addressed. Will this be incorporated into Rhino 8 proper, or will it remain as a plugin?

[Holo]

@wim

The color of the normal vector in the Dir command is gotten from the Tracking lines option in Rhino Options -> Appearance -> Colors. Which command are you using?

Great, didn’t think to test that, orange is gold!

Mainly we check direction of surfaces (meshes) as that is what we work with the most.

And this is OT:
but we use curvature Graph, but that doesn’t work to well on large scale curves together with smaller ones as the graph is radius sensitive:

Can we wish for a none-size based analysis too? That is just shape related? Im not really sure how that should work mathematically though…