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From: Norman Geist (norman.geist_at_uni-greifswald.de)
Date: Wed Jan 21 2015 - 03:42:46 CST

Already found it as a property of materials. But it is only showing effect
in a render context right?

Norman Geist.

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] Im
> Auftrag von Norman Geist
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. Januar 2015 09:20
> An: 'John Stone'
> Cc: VMD Mailing List
> Betreff: AW: vmd-l: The quality of movie made by VMD
>
> Away from the topic but related to John's post, how is the feature of
> mirror
> reflections actually accessible? Is it included in the final vmd-1.9.2?
>
> Norman Geist.
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: John Stone [mailto:johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu]
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Januar 2015 20:33
> > An: Norman Geist
> > Cc: 'sunyeping'; VMD Mailing List
> > Betreff: Re: vmd-l: The quality of movie made by VMD
> >
> > Hi,
> > I would add in addition to what others have already suggested,
> > that those people using Linux with NVIDIA cards would want to try
> > the new GPU-accelerated "light" version of the Tachyon ray tracing
> > engine built into VMD 1.9.2. It can end up being as much as 6x
> faster
> > than the full-featured CPU version of Tachyon when run on CPUs and
> GPUs
> > of a comparable technology generation and price point. The new
> version
> > of VMD also adds support for depth-of-field focal blur and mirror
> > reflections which aren't found in the prior revs of VMD. At present
> > the GPU ray tracing engine is only found on the 64-bit Linux version
> of
> > VMD, but I expect it to be enabled on Windows next, and hopefully on
> > MacOS at some point as well.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:41:23AM +0100, Norman Geist wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > this is related to the default options VMD passes to the program
> > which
> > > actually links all the pictures made by VMD to a video file at
> > last. You
> > > can disable the option to "delete image files" under "movie
> > settings" in
> > > the movie maker window and use ffmpeg or ppmtompeg later
> manually,
> > using
> > > higher quality settings. You will usually find all the pictures
> in
> > /tmp.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > You might also be interested in
> > >
> >
> [1]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/script_library/scripts/userani/
> > for
> > > easy animations in movies.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Also the best renderer is actually Tachyon. Optionally by
> enabling
> > > "ambient occlusion" and "shadows" under VMD
> > > Main->Display->DisplaySettings, but this makes it way slower.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Norman Geist.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Von: owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] Im
> > Auftrag
> > > von sunyeping
> > > Gesendet: Montag, 19. Januar 2015 04:46
> > > An: vmd-l
> > > Betreff: vmd-l: The quality of movie made by VMD
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Dear VMD users,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I am preparing movie from my MD simulation trajectory using the
> > movie
> > > maker plugin of VMD. But I find the quality of the movie I made
> is
> > > unsatisfying when comparing with those published. For example,
> the
> > movie
> > > published by DE Shaw
> > > (https://www.dropbox.com/s/e9grvp8f9mnkopx/movie_Shaw.mov?dl=0)
> > has a
> > > higher solution than mine
> > > (https://www.dropbox.com/s/2qi0tgm6oag4lox/movie_Sun.mp4?dl=0).
> I
> > have the
> > > following question:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > (1) I made my movie as mpg format with VMD and then save it as
> mp4
> > format
> > > with VideoMach. Was Shaw's movie also made by VMD and and
> > VideoMach? Or
> > > was it made by other software?
> > >
> > > (2) What is the representation of the structure in Shaw's movie?
> I
> > guess
> > > it is Cartoon/New Cartoon in VMD. But when applying Cartoon/New
> > Cartoon
> > > representation in my structure, it doesn't look as beautiful as
> > Shaw's.
> > >
> > > (3) I use POV-Ray render in VMD which generate images with the
> > higher
> > > solution than any other reder setting. But the solution is still
> > lower
> > > compared with Shaw's movie. How was Shaw's movie rendered?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Yeping Sun
> > >
> > > Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > References
> > >
> > > Visible links
> > > 1.
> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/script_library/scripts/userani/
> >
> > --
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