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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 15:50:12 CDT

Hi,
  Our sysadmin says that the page referred to was an out-of-date page
and that he is fixing the links on the web site so it points to the
current, and correct version of the page (shtml vs. html):
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Overview/gallery/structure.shtml

Dorina Kosztin (a previous group member here) wrote me to say that
she believes the image had been produced with Quanta by Bill Humphrey.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:04:19PM -0600, Andrew Dalke wrote:
> John:
> > If I were
> >to guess, I'd say it probably got created with molscript or ribbons?
>
> My guess is molscript.
>
> >There were some old comments in the VMD source code that indicated that
> >someone once had a VMD hack that used the Ribbons program to create
> >geometry that was then read into VMD, but I've never seen that work,
>
> That way my hack. I really wanted to get ribons into VMD quickly,
> so I used ribbons from the Raster3D distribution, and imported the
> Raster3D geometry. All ribbons did was generate a thin (0 width)
> ribbon. It couldn't be used to make that picture.
>
> I later replaced that hack with the ribon code the VMD currently
> has. Actually, part of that code is borrowed (with permission)
> from ribbons, and Ethan Merritt borrowed that code from Frodo, which
> was one of the first molecular graphics programs. (I had problems
> getting the ribbon normal to look good. :)
>
> Andrew
> dalke_at_dalkescientific.com
> 

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