Is it just me, or does anyone else have big problems in downloading the
files from the web site? The anonymous FTP site quoted also refuses
me access ('user anonymous unknown').
Ethan A Merritt (merritt at u.washington.edu) wrote:
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: RASTER3D
:: This note is to announce the release of Version 2.3 of the Raster3D
: molecular graphics package. This is a beta release, but the full
: version will not differ substantially from the one now available.
: New features in Version 2.3 include
: - internal light sources ("glow" lights)
: - alpha blend channel in output image
: - automatic generation of stereo pairs
: - new patch for Molscript V1.4 to fix some long-standing bugs
: in the Raster3D output mode
: - file indirection in input files
: - various new anti-aliasing options, rendering options, and
: more flexibility in the "rods" utility
: The README file for the current version is appended below.
: Ethan A Merritt
:merritt at u.washington.edu
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: RASTER3D
: PROGRAM:
: Raster3D 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 specular highlighting,
: Phong shading, and shadowing using an efficient Z-buffer algorithm.
: Ancillary programs process atomic coordinates from Brookhaven PDB
: files into rendering descriptions for pictures composed of ribbons,
: space-filling atoms, bonds, ball+stick, etc. Raster3D can also be
: used to render pictures composed in Per Kraulis' MOLSCRIPT program
: in glorious 3D with highlights, shadowing, etc. (NB: you will need
: MOLSCRIPT V1.4 to get the full benefit of this). Output is to
: pixel image files with 24 bits of color information per pixel.
: AVAILABILITY:
: Raster3D is freely available but unsupported.
: The current version is 3.2b (20 April 1997)
: REFERENCES:
: Bacon, David J. and Anderson, Wayne F. (1988).
: Journal of Molecular Graphics 6, 219-220.
: Merritt, Ethan A. and Murphy, Michael E.P. (1994).
: Acta Cryst. D50, 869-873.
: Merritt, Ethan A. and Bacon, David J. (in press).
: Methods in Enzymology Vol 277 Part B.
: AUTHORS:
: originally written by David J. Bacon and Wayne F. Anderson;
: extensions, revisions, modifications, ancillary programs by
: Mark Israel, Stephen Samuel, Michael Murphy, Albert Berghuis,
: and Ethan A Merritt
: SOURCE:
: web - http://www.bmsc.washington.edu/raster3d/raster3d.html: ftp - anonymous ftp site currently down (sorry)
: contact: Ethan A Merritt
: Dept of Biological Structure Box 357742
: University of Washington
: Seattle WA 98195
: Email: merritt at u.washington.edu
