On Thursday 20 January 2005 15:37, yvonne leduc wrote: > [snip] > And the reason for all this is ... > ... is a *.png image created with ray 1000,750 going to be good enough > for publication standards? Is there much benefit in going higher? what > causes the limits, if any?
Journals typically demand at least 600 dpi (dots per inch) resolution for figures. So if you want a figure 1 inch (2.54 cm) to a side, it will have to be 600 pixels to a side. A typical figure is about five by five centimeters, so that would call for a 1200x1200 pixel image. I have never run into any practical limitations using the PyMOL raytracer, which produces images of the requested size independent of the screen or window size, even if the image becomes so large it cannot be displayed in the PyMOL window (using "ray sizex,sizey" and "png filename"). Hope this helps, -- Lieven Buts Ultrastructure Laboratory Vrije Universiteit Brussel
