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.
Programs for previewing and figure composition are written
for IRIS4D workstations (GL graphics), but all other code is
intended to be machine-independent. Version 2.0 is currently in
beta-test, please see README.2.0.beta for further information.
References
Bacon, David J. and Anderson, Wayne F. (1988). Journal of
Molecular Graphics 6, 219-220 (abstract of paper presented
at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Molecular Graphics
Society, San Francisco, 10-12 August 1988)."A Fast
Algorithm for Rendering Space-Filling Molecule Pictures."
Merritt, Ethan A. and Murphy, Michael (in preparation).
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
anonymous ftp site: Get more info
alternative ftp site: ftp.fu-berlin.de (130.133.4.50)
in directory /pub/science/biochem/raster3d
contact: Ethan A Merritt
Dept of Biological Structure SM-20
University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195
merritt@u.washington.edu
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Please let me know by emailing me at www@bioinformatics.bocklabs.wisc.edu
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