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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 28 2013 - 14:16:49 CDT

Bob,
  Sorry for the slow reply, I was out of town and I'm still several
tens of emails behind... No, there's not a way to do this with any
renderer other than POV-Ray at the moment, but it's on my TODO list
for Tachyon. In this case, I have to write the necessary ray tracing
code first, and then once Tachyon can do it, I will add support for
it into VMD.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 01:35:10PM -0400, Robert Johnson wrote:
> Sorry to resend this. There isn't any way that the solid clipping plane
> can be rendered with Tachyon?
> Thanks,
> Bob
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Robert Johnson
> <robertjo_at_physics.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
> I see. So this can't be rendered with Tachyon?
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:06 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> As Chris pointed out already, this was done using the user-defined
> clipping planes feature of VMD, with a solid clipping plane, and
> rendered
> with POV-Ray. Control over coloring of the solid clipplane is done
> via
> the text commands (see "mol clipplane color" commands).
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:58:11PM +0000, Mayne, Christopher G wrote:
> > It looks like:
> > Extensions -> Visualization -> Clipping Plane Tool
> > Chris
> > On Feb 26, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Robert Johnson wrote:
> >
> > Hello Everyone,
> > I was wondering how the purple image of the alpha-hemolysin
> channel was
> > made here: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/hemolysin/
> > In particular, how was the cross-section made flat? Is this
> feature
> > implemented in VMD or was this done after the image was
> rendered?
> > Thanks,
> > Bob
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> > University of Pennsylvania
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> --
> Bob Johnson, PhD
> Lab Coordinator & Lecturer
> Department of Physics and Astronomy
> University of Pennsylvania
> 209 S. 33rd St.
> Philadelphia, PA 19104
> Office: David Rittenhouse Laboratory 2C11
> Phone: 215-898-5111
> http://www.physics.upenn.edu/~robertjo
>
> --
> Bob Johnson, PhD
> Lab Coordinator & Lecturer
> Department of Physics and Astronomy
> University of Pennsylvania
> 209 S. 33rd St.
> Philadelphia, PA 19104
> Office: David Rittenhouse Laboratory 2C11
> Phone: 215-898-5111
> http://www.physics.upenn.edu/~robertjo 

-- 
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Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/           Phone: 217-244-3349
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/