[PyMOL] Latest Apple G4 graphic cards and PyMOL

2002-09-23 Thread Luca Jovine
Dear OSX PyMOL users, I'd like to hear about your experience with PyMOL using either of the graphic cards shipping with the latest Apple G4s (ATI Radeon 9000 Pro card 64 DDR and NVIDIA GeForce4 Titanium 128 DDR). We are going to get one of these new machines soon but I'm not sure which card sh

[PyMOL] Latest Apple G4 graphic cards and PyMOL (Luca Jovine)

2002-09-23 Thread Florian Nachon
On Monday, Sep 23, 2002, at 14:06 America/Chicago, pymol-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: Dear OSX PyMOL users, I'd like to hear about your experience with PyMOL using either of the graphic cards shipping with the latest Apple G4s (ATI Radeon 9000 Pro card 64 DDR and NVIDIA GeForce4

[PyMOL] Ray-tracing without display

2002-09-23 Thread Serge Cohen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I'm just starting using PyMol, currently making some couple of movies... I'm set to test the movies on my laptop, but I'd like to do the ray-tracing rendering on a computing server, and if possible to run that on the background without ha

[PyMOL] Zooming in, on an atom

2002-09-23 Thread Serge Cohen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi again, This is a different question, I though it was better if I put it in a different eMail: I'm trying to produce a movie showing a metal binding site in my protein. I'd like to start from the general (cartoon) view, and then zoom in (or tr

RE: [PyMOL] Ray-tracing without display

2002-09-23 Thread DeLano, Warren
You can't raytrace it the background using threads, but if you have everything in a script, you can launch a separate process to do the work: "pymol -c script.pml" or "pymol -c script.py" will run PyMOL without a Window. You do need to like against the X11 and OpenGL libs though... Cheers,

RE: [PyMOL] Zooming in, on an atom

2002-09-23 Thread DeLano, Warren
Serge, The zoom command in the released version is flaky and sometimes causes clipping. I've fixed this in the development version and will be preparing a new release shortly. The best thing you can do right now is put a large buffer on the zoom command... zoom all,20 etc.

[PyMOL] transparent CGOs?

2002-09-23 Thread David
Hi, a rephrase of my earlier question: (how do/can) I make my CGO's transparent? Isn't it simply a property of the OpenGL object? -- Groeten, David. Dr. David van der Spoel,Biomedical center, Dept. of Biochemistry

RE: [PyMOL] transparent CGOs?

2002-09-23 Thread DeLano, Warren
David, I haven't written this into the CGO system, which is pretty rudimentary and pretty incomplete at present. Transparency is actually tough to get right, since certain kinds of objects need to be rendered before the transparent surface -- others after. Then there's the issue of Z-

Re: [PyMOL] Latest Apple G4 graphic cards and PyMOL (Luca Jovine) (fwd)

2002-09-23 Thread Nat
> I have a GeForce4 Ti 4600 on a dual 1GHz PowerMac G4 (the old one with > 133 MHz bus). I too am using this, though on a Dell running Linux. The performance is unbelievable; unfortunately the graphics card far outpaces the PC! I have dual pentium IIIs and 1GB of memory, and the machine will dro