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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 18 1999 - 16:08:16 CST

Dear VMD-L,
  I'm releasing VMD 1.4 beta 3 this afternoon right before I go out
of town for a few days. If there are VMD questions while I'm gone
one of our other VMD developers should be able to help you out, and I
will be attempting to read mail sporadically. I'll return on December 1st.

Here are the salient points about beta 3 over previous betas:
  - OpenGL versions of VMD now implement a simple (but very fast)
    transparency algorithm. So the transparency button finally works
    in the OpenGL builds now! I will be making a number of additional
    improvements to this code when I return. I hope to implement at least
    one alpha blending based technique.
  - new transparency support added to Raster3D export code
  - improved scene exports to Tachyon (especially transparency)
  - greatly improved Postscript renderer, several serious memory leaks fixed,
    works fine now on large molecules that used to crash the code.
  - fixed a bug with Surf on HPUX, and another Surf bug on all VMD platforms.
  - updated interactive MD code, some things that didn't make it into
    the beta 2 builds.
  - added the "print" item back on the atom info popup menu, was
    accidentally removed previously.

Thanks for using VMD!

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
  November 18, 1999 

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