Overlapping linearly opposing gradients (solid-to-transparent, of the same color) doesn’t produce a solid color
One oddity, which happens both in RGB and CMYK is that there is always some visibility of the background with two overlapping, linearly opposing gradients (black to white and white to black).
RGB attached for simplicity.
They should actually appear as uniform. Also the color at the 50% distance is not even a tint.
Chris Clark
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Yep, I know about this myself too.
Even with CPU Preview (GPU speed performance may alter colors a lot), both a screenshot of the canvas and an exported TIFF (and PNG), measured in Photoshop, give me G and B climbing up in the middle gradually in sync, up to 64.
I’d agree 50 + 50 should give 100, but... Math... Gamma... Color profiles... too many factors contribute.I wonder what are the things you do often that make it important? Just curious.
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The parent report:
Gradient across stroke, inside opacity mask is thresholded for half the width of the stroke
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/51190204
