Re: [PyMOL] Focus depth

Hi Thomas,

Just a as a note. A focal blur is not like a fog, but results from
sort of averaging a series of images, with the in-focus plane being
well-defined and the planes in front and in the back blurred according
to the distance from the in-focus plane (and the aperture). Not
completely trivial to implement... And PovRay usually does an
excellent job for me :)

Cheers,

Tsjerk

On 5/23/07, Thomas Blicher <bl...@cb...> wrote:
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> Dear PyMOL users,
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> I was wondering if it is possible to implement focus depth (also known as
> depth of field or DOF) in PyMOL. I have come across several links to DOF =
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> it appears to be a common feature of ray-tracing programs. I imagine that=
 it
> could work like the fog function =96 possibly in combination with this =
=96 to
> give an even more realistic feeling of depth/perspective, especially in
> close-ups. It is probably most useful for making artistic molecular
> graphics, i.e. for ray-traced images, so it wouldn't have to work real-ti=
me.
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> Does anyone have ideas on how to implement this in PyMOL (other than
> exporting files and rendering them in POVRay)?
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> Best regards,
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> Thomas Blicher
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