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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2005 - 15:15:17 CST

Alex,
  Do you have a similar problem if you render the image with Tachyon, or
is this specific to just POV-Ray?

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 07:34:47PM -0000, apeyser_at_newssun.med.miami.edu wrote:
>
>
>
> I'm attempting to render a vmd scene composed of spheres colored with the User
> method, in pov-ray.
>
> When rendered in OpenGL, I get the proper mapping of User values to Color, a
> smooth mapping from red for min, green for mid and blue for max. However, the
> .pov file produced by vmd is mapping the mid colors to
> rgbt<0.350,0.350,0.350,0.7>, which is gray instead of green. The min and max
> colors are mapped properly to red and blue, respectively.
>
> I have been able to test with 1.8.3 and 1.8.3b.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex Peyser 

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