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International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. F. ch. 25.1, p. 694
Section 25.1.9.7. Raster 3D
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Biomolecular Crystallography Laboratory, CABM & Rutgers University, 679 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854-5638, USA, and Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yue-Yang Road, Shanghai 200 031, People's Republic of China, and bBiomolecular Crystallography Laboratory, CABM & Rutgers University, 679 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854-5638, USA |
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3D (Bacon & Anderson, 1988![[link]](/graphics/greenarr.gif)
; Merritt & Murphy, 1994; Merritt & Bacon, 1997) is a set of tools for generating high-quality raster images of proteins or other molecules. The core program renders spheres, triangles and cylinders with special highlighting, Phong shading and shadowing. It uses an efficient software Z-buffer algorithm that is independent of any graphics hardware. Ancillary programs process atomic coordinates from PDB files into rendering descriptions for pictures composed of ribbons, space-filling atoms, bonds, ball-and-stick etc. Raster3D can also be used to render pictures composed in Per Kraulis' program MOLSCRIPT (Section 25.1.9.3) in glorious 3D with highlights, shadowing etc. Output is pixel image files with 24 bits of colour information per pixel.
Location: http://www.bmsc.washington.edu/raster3d/raster3d.html . Operating systems: DEC, SGI, ESV, SUN, IBM, HP and LINUX. Type: source code and binary. Distribution: free.
References
Bacon, D. J. & Anderson, W. F. (1988). A fast algorithm for rendering space-filling molecule pictures. J. Mol. Graphics, 6, 219–220.Google Scholar
Merritt, E. A. & Bacon, D. J. (1997). Raster3D: photorealistic molecular graphics. Methods Enzymol. 277, 505–524.Google Scholar
Merritt, E. A. & Murphy, M. E. P. (1994). Raster3D version 2.0. A program for photorealistic molecular graphics. Acta Cryst. D50, 869–873.Google Scholar
