Re: [Jmol-users] odd results (12.0.11 and 12.1.9)

[Robert H. <ha...@st...>]

When you have multiple layers of translucent objects, it is possible to get
some odd effects.

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Pshemak Maslak <pm...@ch...> wrote:

>  A case of odd outcome.
>
> I have run the following in 12.0.11 and 12.1.9 (and compared to 12.0,8
> which I happen to have on my website)::
>
>                   isosurface cutoff 0.09 resolution 5 phase color
> translucent 7 atomicOrbital 2 0 0 1.0
>
> One would expect three concentric isosurface spheres, the big "outside"
> one (red) and two small "inner" ones with the bigger of the two also red
> and the smallest blue; with all partially translucent.
>
> That is indeed what is observed for 12.0.8, 12.011 and 12.1.9.
>
> However rotation of the object leads to partial (12.0.11) or almost
> complete (12.1.9) "occlusion" of the most inner sphere as if the middle
> sphere had lost transparency of one of its halves.
>
> It is difficult to describe, but clearly visible if the above script is
> executed in all three Jmol versions, side by side.
>
> Not a big issue, but....
>
> PM
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by:
>
> Show off your parallel programming skills.
> Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010.
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd
> _______________________________________________
> Jmol-users mailing list
> Jmo...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
>



-- 
Robert M. Hanson
Professor of Chemistry
St. Olaf College
1520 St. Olaf Ave.
Northfield, MN 55057
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
phone: 507-786-3107


If nature does not answer first what we want,
it is better to take what answer we get.

-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900