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  "description": "Chemblaics (pronounced chem-bla-ics) is the science that uses open science and computers to solve problems in chemistry, biochemistry and related fields.",
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    {
      "name": "Egon Willighagen",
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      "id": "https://doi.org/10.59350/byehz-56r07",
      "url": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2007/10/19/bob-improved-pov-ray-export-of-jmol.html",
      "title": "Bob improved the POV-Ray export of Jmol",
      "content_html": "<p>Bob has set up a new interface between the data model and the <a href=\"http://www.jmol.org/\">Jmol</a> renderer, which\nallows him to define other types of export too. One of this is a <a href=\"http://www.povray.org/\">POV-Ray</a> export,\nwhich allows creating of high quality images for paper. Jmol has had POV-Ray export for a long time now,\nbut never included the secondary structures or other more recent visual featues. <a href=\"http://pymol.sourceforge.net/\">PyMOL</a>\nis well-known for its POV-Ray feature, and often used to create publication quality protein prints. The\nscript command to create a POV-Ray input file takes the output image size as parameters:</p>\n\n<div class=\"language-plaintext highlighter-rouge\"><div class=\"highlight\"><pre class=\"highlight\"><code>write povray 400 600   # width 400, height 600\n</code></pre></div></div>\n\n<p>Here’s a screenshot of a protein with surface:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"/assets/images/t2.pov.png\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n\n<p>And here a MO of water:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"/assets/images/watermo.pov.png\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n\n<p>Note the shading. More examples are available <a href=\"http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/temp/jmol/povray.htm\">here</a>.</p>",
      "summary": "Bob has set up a new interface between the data model and the Jmol renderer, which allows him to define other types of export too. One of this is a POV-Ray export, which allows creating of high quality images for paper. Jmol has had POV-Ray export for a long time now, but never included the secondary structures or other more recent visual featues. PyMOL is well-known for its POV-Ray feature, and often used to create publication quality protein prints. The script command to create a POV-Ray input file takes the output image size as parameters:",
      "image": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/assets/images/t2.pov.png",
      "date_published": "2007-10-19T00:00:00+00:00",
      "date_modified": "2007-10-19T00:00:00+00:00",
      "tags": ["jmol"],
      
      
      
      
      
      
        "authors": [ { "name": "Egon Willighagen", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286" } ]
      
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