Transparency is a render policy.

The official blending example lays out the same image under No, Normal, Additive, Subtractive, and Multiply blending. This study keeps that material boundary visible with deterministic in-memory textures.

STATUS

Preparing

BACKEND

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STATUS DETAIL

Creating blending fixtures.

GRID

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ACTIVE MATERIAL

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SAMPLE AVG / P95

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Material.blending selects the blend equation; `transparent` enables the transparent-material path, while opacity controls alpha. Depth sorting, premultiplied alpha, driver behavior, exact official image assets, exact page/pixel fidelity, and whole-example fidelity remain separate.

Sources: official blending example · Material docs