I have play around the DSIMB motif, which is the new name for my actual laboratory (EBGM).
DSIMB is for "Dynamique et Structure des interactions des macromolécules biologiques".
The first one were using my ABCgen web server, which have produce the pdb file for the text "DSIMB", and then using VMD exported to gelato. Layer were add in the gimp.
The second serie comes from Blender.
The last one correspond to an idea from Aurélie Bornot which is a phd in the lab.
Still playing with gelato. In this case i have use ray-traced shadow and indirect light in addition to the ambiant occlusion pass. Namely:
Light("light2", "distantlight", "float intensity", 1, "color lightcolor", (1, 1, 1), "point from", (1, 2, 0.5), "point to", (0, 0, 0),"string shadowname", "shadow","float shadowblur", 0,"float shadowsamples", 16,"float __nonspecular",0)
Light("light4", "indirectlight", "string indirectname", "indirect","float intensity", 0.5, "string sdbmode", "","float samples" ,64,"float bias" , 0.1)
Then all is loaded as layer in the gimp, and i use the grain merge mode with 50% opacity of the beauty pass.
The scene have a transparent background. (click to enlarge the picture)
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