bug in alpha for geomview

[roseman]

I have loaded   and  onethirdturn72.3off sphereB.geom from /work1/roseman
into geomview.  


I want to make the first transparent, the sphere not.

So I set the alpha to a low value.  


It doesn't look right--I've been told to expect that--but I thought I would come out OK if I  
saved and rendered it.  Result (s) are intersection and intersection2, rendered as the  
corresponding tiff files.  No alpha has been set.  I also saved as geometry in  
intersection.off.  I note that in this file the alpha remains set at 1.
I even tried to save a "clearly" transprent copy of just the onethirdturn in onetransp.off.
This also was saved with alpha value i for all verticies.

there seem to other strange things happening--but this is the only one I have pinned down.

Will try to get around this in an awk-ward manner  (changing the file using awk, then  
rendering)