Re: [Jmol-developers] Did we change the direction for frontlit/backlit between version 11.6 and 11.8?

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

It is correct. The lighting follows a right-hand rule around the triangles
or quadrilaterals. Thumb in the direction of "frontlit"

Bob


On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Jonathan Gutow <gu...@uw...> wrote:

> Bob,
>        I think this question is for you.  I've been trying to help the SAGE
> people a little with their embeded Jmol.  I just tried updating Jmol
> to 11.8 from 11.6 in my test SAGE installation.  I noticed that the
> backlit/frontlit selection for pmesh seems to have flipped about 180
> deg between the two versions.  They can change their set up to
> accommodate it, but I was wondering if this was a correction to a
> mistake or an accidental swap.  If accidental, can we set it back?
>
> Jonathan
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