Reflections inaccurate

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Just run the app and stay in coverflow view.  

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Reflections usually fade from dark (or some percentage of the cover) to black 
as you go down 
the screen. The way coverflow wii renders now is black to normal. Google up 
coverflow images 
to see what I mean.  

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
4.2 beta

Please provide any additional information below.
Perhaps the alpha channel gradient needs to be applied either before it's 
vertically flipped or 
after?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by thematri...@gmail.com on 7 May 2009 at 6:38

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Yeah, this was noted already, just not in the issues list... But certainly 
something 
to fix to make it more smooth and accurate...

Original comment by git...@gmail.com on 7 May 2009 at 8:02

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Fixed it in r161.

 I think it will be more to your liking now... However, since we're using the alpha
channel for the transparency on the reflection, you can 'see through' a little 
to the
next cover. Apple's clearly doesn't do that, but ours is close enough I think.

Original comment by afou...@gmail.com on 7 May 2009 at 9:49

• Changed state: Fixed

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Thanks for taking a look at this! I think it'll look even better that it 
already does
now.

I was thinking about the transparency "collision" on the overlapping covers: 
(and not
to brag or anything, I was one of a million beta testers for Coverflow before 
Apple
bought it from a programmer named Catfish - this was back when it was just a
standalone app for playing music) I think what Apple does is they don't apply an
alpha channel to the cover but they create a new image of the cover and overlay 
a
black gradient on top of the cover and then transform it and render it out. 
This way,
there's no translucent issues when the covers overlap. So if you guys do a white
theme, you'll need to use a white gradient instead of a black one. Hope I 
explained
that alright.

Original comment by thematri...@gmail.com on 7 May 2009 at 4:24