Hi Thomas,
Thank you for letting me know that this is a genuine limitation of the code as
it stands. The strange thing is that despite the vast memory usage, the final
PNG images are rarely over 10 MB, unless there are many lines from a CCP4 map
for example. Making the scene from scratch rather
Hi Stephen,
This is not an artificial Open Source PyMOL limitation.
PyMOL's ray tracing code was written at a time when probably nobody had a
computer with 64GB of RAM, or at least didn't attempt to ray trace images that
size. The code is pretty hard to read and understand, and currently there
So the images are back from the printers and I can easily tell the difference
between 180 and 300 dpi. You have to look closely to tell the difference
between 300 and 600 dpi. I am unable to distinguish between 600 and 1200 dpi.
My image size is still limited to 7500 x 6000, which at 600 dpi giv
Thanks Tsjerk!
now the map is accepted fine by the Pymol- however there is an problem
due to the mismatching of atoms in ref structure and the map (although
I use ref.pdf from which contact map has been produced). Probably the
source of the error is Martini's atom representation used in my system
