Raster3D - Overview

Description:

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. It uses an efficient software Z-buffer algorithm which is independent of any graphics hardware. 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' program MOLSCRIPT in glorious 3D with highlights, shadowing, etc. Output is to pixel image files with 24 bits of color information per pixel.

Author:

Ethan Merritt and Michael Murphy
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington
merritt@u.washington.edu

Usage:

Online Documentation

Source:

Download via anonymous ftp from ftp.bmsc.washington.edu -- /pub/raster3d/

Last Updated: 8/13/95