From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 13 2008 - 14:48:24 CDT

Hi,
  We make developmental builds continually available via BioCoRE here:
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/alpha/

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:35:45PM -0700, Dong Xu wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> That sounds great! Does it mean we should download VMD from time to time
> since it's being constantly updated, or there's a developmental version
> somewhere we should check out instead?
>
> Regards,
>
> -DX
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:04 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> > Yes. When I updated the Tachyon builds, I updated them for all of the
> > supported platforms. I will be doing some more updates to Tachyon and
> > also to the VMD interface to Tachyon over the next several weeks which will
> > improve the AO feature further, and particularly for making movies
> > in VMD etc.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 07:31:03PM -0700, Dong Xu wrote:
> > > Hi Alex,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the info. Tachyon works great! Can windows version tachyon
> > that
> > > comes with VMD also render AO images?
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > -DX
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Axel Kohlmeyer <
> > akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Dong Xu wrote:
> > > >
> > > > p.s.: for some really stunning images, you may want to check out:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/minitutorials/tachyonao/
> > > >
> > > > i recently did some images using the AO feature and my
> > > > colleagues were quite impressed. ;-)
> > > >
> > > > a.
> > > >
> > > > DX> Hi All,
> > > > DX>
> > > > DX> I was trying to get high quality images using VMD's Pov-Ray
> > rendering
> > > > on a
> > > > DX> Windows XP computer. I rendered my current VMD window to a *.pov
> > file
> > > > and
> > > > DX> load it into Pov-Ray 3.6. Then I clicked "Run" in Pov-Ray, Pov-Ray
> > > > saved the
> > > > DX> rendered image to a *.bmp. However, the bmp file quality is quite
> > low.
> > > > Does
> > > > DX> anyone have similar problem? What do I have to do to get
> > > > high-resolution
> > > > DX> snapshots?
> > > > DX>
> > > > DX> Thanks!
> > > > DX>
> > > > DX> -DX
> > > > DX>
> > > >
> > > > --
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> > http://www.cmm.upenn.edu
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> > > > tel: 1-215-898-1582, fax: 1-215-573-6233, office-tel: 1-215-898-5425
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> > > >
> >
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