From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 05 2010 - 17:06:54 CDT

Nicolas,
  I haven't tested the script with POV-Ray, but if it isn't already
right-on, you can hack/modify the coordinate transformations in
my Tachyon script here to do the same for POV-Ray. See the glowlights
script I've attached to this email.

Cheers,
  John

On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:01:20AM +0200, Nicolas Sapay wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wish to render a picture with a focal blur effect using POVRay. The
> focal point corresponds to the geometric center of an atom selection.
> How can I convert its PDB coordinates into POVRay coordinates?
> Actually, there is a second layer of complexity to my problem. I also
> wish to display periodic images of my system, which will put the focus
> point on the front periodic image, i.e. center + box length in PDB
> coordinates.
>
> Thanks,
> Nicolas

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