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From: Dong Xu (d1xu_at_ucsd.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 13 2008 - 14:35:45 CDT

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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