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From: Dong Xu (d1xu_at_ucsd.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 12 2008 - 21:31:03 CDT

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the info. Tachyon works great! Can windows version tachyon that
comes with VMD also render AO images?

Best,

-DX

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu>
wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Dong Xu wrote:
>
> p.s.: for some really stunning images, you may want to check out:
>
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/minitutorials/tachyonao/
>
> i recently did some images using the AO feature and my
> colleagues were quite impressed. ;-)
>
> a.
>
> DX> Hi All,
> DX>
> DX> I was trying to get high quality images using VMD's Pov-Ray rendering
> on a
> DX> Windows XP computer. I rendered my current VMD window to a *.pov file
> and
> DX> load it into Pov-Ray 3.6. Then I clicked "Run" in Pov-Ray, Pov-Ray
> saved the
> DX> rendered image to a *.bmp. However, the bmp file quality is quite low.
> Does
> DX> anyone have similar problem? What do I have to do to get
> high-resolution
> DX> snapshots?
> DX>
> DX> Thanks!
> DX>
> DX> -DX
> DX>
>
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