What would you call this type of shader?

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I’m looking at creating something similar, but unsure where to start, so wanted to search for something similar but unsure how it is called?

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I’d call it “XRay shader”

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that could be done with a transparent MeshMatcapMaterial with a bright ring / dark middle texture

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If you are into writing shaders I’d give Xray shader a try. It only takes computing the dot product between (normalized) surface normal and position in view space, so its fast and support pointclouds as well (per-vertex).

Some time ago I tested porting into three.js the meshlab implementation, which is available at their official github repo :crossed_fingers:t3:

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glow or atmosphere

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Something like this maybe: Help | floating animation - #13 by prisoner849

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thanks everyone! All ideas helped me and if it helps anyone else i ended up using this but tweaking it abit…

not sure if this is what @Antonio was meaning, but looks good to me

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