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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 28 2015 - 11:34:59 CST

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:46 AM, James Kress
<jimkress_58_at_kressworks.org> wrote:
> If SVG was offered as a "rendering" option, this would not be an issue.

sure would, since that also needs to be rendered into pixels i.e. via
a suitable viewer software to be able to view it.

you *can* already render to similar formats like VRML and X3D.

axel.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] On Behalf Of Axel Kohlmeyer
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:13 AM
> To: M K
> Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: making self-adjustable high resolution images
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> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:47 AM, M K <mahyar.karimi20_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I zoom in an image, I find that atoms find edge and it becomes
>> blurred and ugly. How can I render an image that when I zoom in, it
>> automatically adjusts the resolution and still the atoms remain
>> spherical. What image format it should be and what render machine is able to make it?
>
> there is no such image format. once you commit something to a given number of pixels, there is no going back. in the same way, you cannot get a higher resolution from your sceen by using a microscope. the only way to get what you want would be to re-render the data on demand, i.e. by using VMD or a raytracing program.
> the next best thing is to render the image at a much higher resolution, i.e. with more pixels (i.e. like using a higher resolution screen in my example above).
> that requires that you use a rendering program, e.g. Tachyon, to generate the image and change the flags that define the resolution of the resulting image.
>
> axel.
>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mahyar
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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.