Java3D Tutorial Jenny Orr, Willamette University

Appearance

• Defines rendering attributes for a shape: material, coloring attributes, texture, etc
• Material: color in the presence of lights:
• ambient, diffuse, specular, emissive, shininess
• see lightdemo.
• Coloring Attributes: color and shading model (next slide)
• Sample Code:

  Appearance appearance = new Appearance();   
  Material material = new Material(ambientColor,
      emissiveColor,diffuseColor,specularColor,
      shininess);
  appearance.setMaterial(material);	 
     
  ColoringAttributes ca;
  ca.setShadeModel(ColoringAttributes.SHADE_GOURAUD);
  appearance.setColoringAttributes(ca);