MGLTools PMV - Gelato

I have recently discover the MGLTools-PMV software and its amazing number of possibility...(see http://mgltools.scripps.edu/ from http://mgl.scripps.edu/ ). Playing with, its seems really easy to add plug-in and new functionality. Like I did here to integrate the nvidia rendering engine gelato as a plug-in accessible for the file menu of pmv :



A simple capture from pmv (with antialiasing) look like this (and this is a realy simple one...):



Using gelato, I can select which object inside Pmv I want to render with gelato, and choose an apropriate shader. Currently, the plug-in only handle CPK and ball&stick style.
The ambiant occlusion is still a good choice to increase the quality of picture :

Then I just have to combine this two picture using imagemagic, gimp or either the vision software (part of the mgl tools... http://mgltools.scripps.edu/packages/vision ), i will try to show something later with this.

IBISC gift

From skecth to final crystal printing picture. The idea was to unfold the dna double strand around a gene netowrk ....

metaBALL blender

PDB -> metaball blender -> Kerkythea

home protein contemporary art

Same protein as previous, but this time put in a room with daylight (the scene comes from http://www.mrcad.com/?p=166)...I don't know if I would like such art in my appartment ...

protein breakfast & lunch

I dedicated this picture for all people who think, live, wakeup etc... with protein structure. The scene is come from http://www.3dm3.com/tutorials/mr/. The protein come from the PDB (http://www.rcsb.org/)...

better test (SSS)

a new test of this green material. Less rendering time on a more powerfull computer...(25min)...
This can be for sure optimised...but I like the way the atom appear behind the surface...(clic to enlarge).

rendering test

Its just a test, but it took more than 4hours on my poor computer...(click to enlarge the picture)