11.1 Changes from 0.7 to 0.8

fixed plenty of bugs

best visual is searched

added .struct connect

scalar-field line rendering dependent on z-orientation

added render property arrowt

added $CP

added scene property slabw

added png output

added transparency to hsc and tube rendering

added scene split

added .struct set center and .struct reset all

added structure selecteable property class

added -accum / -a keyword to output

scalar field and topograph objects have default of render light2

added insightII and grasp input format

removed RGB output

added stipple output to POVray with rounded cylinders

added comments to POVray output for stereo generation

added scene mono

added scene property detail2

added POVray output

ESC in pause mode added

added dataset commands rotx roty rotz transx transy transz

changed default variable definitions

RGB output removed

syntax for range <VAL1,VAL2> changed to VAL1:VAL2

11.2 Software

CCP4 homepage: http://www.dl.ac.uk/CCP/CCP4/main.html

CHARMM homepage: http://yuri.harvard.edu/charmm/charmm.html

MEAD homepage: http://www.scripps.edu/bashford/

MSMS homepage:
http://www.scripps.edu/pub/olson-web/people/sanner/html/msms_home.html

MSP homepage: http://www.biohedron.com/

Raster3D homepage: http://www.bmsc.washington.edu/raster3d

RCSB: The new PDB home: http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/

UHBD homepage: http://chemcca10.ucsd.edu/

X-PLOR/CNS homepage: http://xplor.csb.yale.edu

POVray homepage: http://www.povray.org

11.3 References

The C Programming Language, Second Edition, ANSI C

B.W. Kernighan and D.M. Ritchie

Prentice Hall International 1990

 

OpenGL Programming Guide, Third edition

J. Neider, T. Davis, M. Woo

Addison Wesley 1994

 

OpenGL Programming for the X Windows System

M.J. Kilgard

Addison Wesley 1996

 

X Windows System Programming 2nd Ed.

N. Barkakati

SAMS Publishing 1996

 

UNIX Systems Programming for SVR4

D.A. Curry

O'Reilly & Associates 1996

 

Interactive Computer Graphics

P. Burger, D. Gillies

Addison Wesley 1989

 

Numerical Recipes in C 2nd Ed

W.H. Press, W.T. Vetterling, S.A. Teukolsky, B.P. Flannery

Cambridge University Press 1992

 

PostScript Language Reference Manual (Red Book)

Adobe Systems Inc.

Addison Wesley 1987

 

OSF/Motif Programmers Guide (for Release 1.1)

Open Software Foundation

PTR Prentice Hall 1991

 

OSF/Motif Programmers Reference (for Release 1.1)

Open Software Foundation

PTR Prentice Hall 1991

 

Introduction to Protein Structure

C. Branden and J. Tooze

Garland 1992

 

Fundamentals of Crystallography

C. Giacovazzo (Ed.)

Oxford Science Publications 1992