High Quality Grasp Surfaces

[islam]

Steffen Graether wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to generate some high quality (ie. ~300 dpi colour) images of
> a grasp surface. The best bet should be using the grasp
> write/postscript/25x dense to make a postscript file. However,
> I've done some b/w tests at 9x dense ps file, and there are two problems.
> One is that there are nine lines between the nine images put together,
> and the image has many dots to make up the shading. Rather coarse for
> such a large file (~70 Mb).
> 
> Does anyone have a work around? The authors are aware of the problem but
> do not have a solution.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Steffen

I have an indirect way of producing "unlimited"
size images of grasp surface and that is to
rewrite the grasp file as input for a raytracer
such as Povray. The surface can then be rendered
and output as an RGB image (MUCH smaller than a 
ps file !).

I use our Molecular Graphics program PREPI
( http://www.icnet.uk/bmm/PREPI) to read  
the grasp surface, set transparency etc and then
output for Povray.

If this program is of anyuse to you let 
me know and I can send you download details.  

suhail
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Suhail A Islam
Biomolecular Modelling Laboratory
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
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email: islam at icrf.icnet.uk
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