I'm trying to figure out something -- is the end goal to make animated GIFs
or something else? Because now you just do that directly in Jmol, right? No
need for all the files or GIMP. Just use the CAPTURE command.
Bob
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Rolf Huehne <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On 10/15/2014 05:59 PM, Brenton Horne wrote:
>
>> 60 frames at 400x181 resolution: [1
>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1_sXH68hMWBMzBGa2ZJbDFPZTA/view?
>> usp=sharing>]
>>
>> 60 frames at 1362x617 resolution: [2
>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1_sXH68hMWBc0tURDBWczJrNWM/view?
>> usp=sharing>]
>>
>> 180 frames at 1362x617 resolution: [3
>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1_sXH68hMWBbVBFZ1FCdzFBdk0/view?
>> usp=sharing>]
>>
>> I don't even know how to do indexing.
>>
>> I don't know what goes wrong on your computer. It looks much better if I
> do it on my computer. See the file (temporarily) available here:
> http://www.fli-leibniz.de/~rhuehne/jmol/Bupropion-
> crystal_1362x617_180_frames.gif
>
> There wasn't even much difference wheter I have set 'indexed' mode
> manually or not. But I would still recommend doing it manually.
> I tried to explain how to do indexing in one of my previous answers on
> this thread.
>
> In the GIMP menu select entry "Image", then subentry "Mode" and then
> subentry "Indexed...".
> This should open a dialog window. there you should select as options
> "Generate optimum palette" with "Maximum number of colors 255" (1 color is
> needed for transparency) and for "Color dithering" one of the two
> "Floyd-Steinberg" options.
>
> Since the major part of your structure is black it doesn't seem to be a
> very good idea to choose almost black as the transient background color
> during image generation. So I added another parameter
> 'transientBackgroundColor' after the 'stepCommandSet' parameter to the new
> version of the function in the attached file.
> "yellow" might work better in your example.
>
> As you might see in my GIF file, there are still some remaining black
> pixels from the background, For example around the atoms.
>
> You might try to run the command 'setAntialiasImages off' before running
> the 'exportAnimation' command.
>
> Which version of GIMP do you use on which platform? Maybe this could
> explain why your result is much worse.
>
>
> Regards,
> Rolf
>
>
>
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