Re: [Jmol-users] Exporting planes and (iso)surfaces to povray

[Alan H. <he...@il...>]

At 16:17 15/05/2007, Bob wrote:
>To really pay off, I think we would want to do exports to POV-Ray that are not exact duplicates of what Jmol can do. Instead, we should use this as an opportunity to, for example, turn bonds into conic segments rather than straight cylinders.

I would be happy to have the exact same Jmol model exported to POV-Ray, since rendering with ray tracing is already worth having. Jmol is a serious tool for crystallographers, while POV-Ray is for making pretty pictures for publication (which is also important).

BTW, nothing should be done to slow down jmol, which is already a bit slow for constructing multiple (hidden) zeolite cells of 25 Angstroms that are needed for constructing polyhedra. (It would be good if we only had to use the immediate surrounds of the central cell i.e. to ~2.5 Angstroms for this purpose :-) )

Alan.

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