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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 12 2008 - 22:04:47 CDT

Hi,
  Yes. When I updated the Tachyon builds, I updated them for all of the
supported platforms. I will be doing some more updates to Tachyon and
also to the VMD interface to Tachyon over the next several weeks which will
improve the AO feature further, and particularly for making movies
in VMD etc.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 07:31:03PM -0700, Dong Xu wrote:
> 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>
> >
> > --
> > =======================================================================
> > Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu http://www.cmm.upenn.edu
> > Center for Molecular Modeling -- University of Pennsylvania
> > Department of Chemistry, 231 S.34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323
> > tel: 1-215-898-1582, fax: 1-215-573-6233, office-tel: 1-215-898-5425
> > =======================================================================
> > If you make something idiot-proof, the universe creates a better idiot.
> > 

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