Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol 10.00.13 - Poor cartoon rendering

[Old A. <jr...@im...>]

Rolf Huehne wrote:
>    Dear all,
>
> I just tried out Jmol 10.00.13 and noticed a vast difference in 
> cartoon rendering to version 10.00. In the new version the cartoons 
> look now just as poorly as in rasmol.
>
> When I searched for an answer for that I found the following message 
> in the jmol-users archive:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7400375&forum_id=2151 
>
>
> Miguel wrote in it about version 10.00.12:
>
> "In addition, a few bugs were fixed and graphics performance was 
> enhanced in some areas. Due to popular demand, the rendering of 
> ribbons+cartoons has been changed to eliminate the border at the edge 
> of the ribbons."
>
> I really can't imagine that there could be a large popular demand for 
> that. The border was exactly what made the difference for a much 
> better recognizability of the structures and a much better 
> three-dimensional impression.

> I hope that it is (or will be made) possible to set a switch to get 
> the border back!
> In the documentation I could not find a hint about such a switch.
I totally agree with Rolf. It is not really a patch to do:
cartoon on
select helix or sheet
meshribbon 250
Please implement a switch, to restore the previous Jmol cartoon rendering.
Regards, Jan