[Jmol-developers] [ jmol-Feature Requests-3604469 ] Bond out of atoms

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Feature Requests item #3604469, was opened at 2013-02-13 02:49
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Category: Interface Improvements
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Sergey (sergucho)
Assigned to: Bob Hanson (hansonr)
Summary: Bond out of atoms

Initial Comment:
Just small thing can improve visualisation of small molecule structure with ellipsoid representation. So, if the bond will not be drawn inside the atom space it can be more representable from my opinion. This idea comes from ORTEP. Two pictures: ORTEP and Jmol are attached 

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>Comment By: Bob Hanson (hansonr)
Date: 2013-02-13 13:08

Message:
OK, I've got it. Will be in Jmol 13.0.13 and 13.1.13 as a bug fix. Thank
you!

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Comment By: Bob Hanson (hansonr)
Date: 2013-02-13 10:51

Message:
well, there's a challenge! So the idea is to back off the bond lines to the
edges of the ellipsoids. Could be a messy calculation there. Or POSSIBLY
use some graphics tricks to clear out the pixels that are behind the
ellipsoids and then re-fill them with the ellipsoid quadrants (That
actually might work. I might try that....) 

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