Hi folks,
I found a bug in the povray output from PyMOL, when using the
orthographic perspective (the perspective projection is ok):
I had been playing around with using povray to make fancy images from
PyMOL output, but I noticed (actually somebody else did, I was too busy
admiring the special effects that I could create!) that the povray
output file that I created from pymol gives a mirror image. I simply
create my povray input file with:
(header,data) = cmd.get_povray()
povfile=open(file,'w')
povfile.write(header)
povfile.write(data)
povfile.close()
The header looks something like:
camera {orthographic location <0.0 , 0.0 , 146.8305816650>
look_at <0.0 , 0.0 , -1.0> right 64.2756500244*x up 65.9462890625*y}
#default { finish{phong 0.800 ambient 0.120 diffuse 1.080
phong_size 25.000000}}
light_source{<4000.0001,4000.0001,9853.1694> rgb<1.0,1.0,1.0>}
plane{z , -236.2687
pigment{color rgb<1.0000,1.0000,1.0000>}
finish{phong 0 specular 0 diffuse 0 ambient 1.0}}
The second line contains the information that describes the view.
To correct the image, I had to change the sign of
the X-axis (the "right" parameter). Thus changing:
look_at <0.0 , 0.0 , -1.0> right 64.2756500244*x up 65.9462890625*y}
to:
look_at <0.0 , 0.0 , -1.0> right -64.2756500244*x up 65.9462890625*y}
Since it would be a pain to have to edit the povray file all the time,
I went looking for the word "look_at" in the sournce and I found the
offending lines in layer1/Ray.c (line 508). The diff to my correction
looks like:
*** ./Ray.c.orig Fri Aug 16 14:35:05 2002
--- Ray.c Fri Aug 16 13:46:33 2002
***************
*** 507,509 ****
sprintf(buffer,"camera {orthographic location <0.0 , 0.0 ,
%12.10f>\nlook_at <0.0 , 0.0 , -1.0> right %12.10f*x up %12.10f*y}\n",
! front,I->Range[0],I->Range[1]);
}
--- 507,509 ----
sprintf(buffer,"camera {orthographic location <0.0 , 0.0 ,
%12.10f>\nlook_at <0.0 , 0.0 , -1.0> right %12.10f*x up %12.10f*y}\n",
! front,-1*I->Range[0],I->Range[1]);
}
That is, I simply multiplied I->Range[0] by -1 to swap the hand of the
resulting image.
Hope this helps any confused povray-ers out there,
Robert
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Robert L. Campbell, Ph.D. http://biophysics.med.jhmi.edu/rlc
[email protected] phone: 410-614-6313
Research Specialist/X-ray Facility Manager
HHMI/Dept. of Biophysics & Biophysical Chem., The Johns Hopkins University
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