Hi Kilian I'm afraid the succession of spheres is Jmol's only way of producing curved lines (also used for protein cartoons and traces)
Have you tried adjusting set antiAliasDisplay ? Baerwinkel escribió: > Hi fellow Jmolers! > > I am preparing some structure plots with Jmol and PovRay, and I must say Jmol > does an overall splendid job there. > > I have one question left before perfection: > > Is it possible to draw a curved arrow with a smooth surface? As far as i can > see, "draw arrow arc" as well as "draw arrow ..." with a sufficient number of > points supplied yield a nicely curved arrow, but they both draw it via a > chain of spheres. Unfortunately, this looks a bit poor in high-resolution > pictures... > > Any suggestions? > > Best > > Kilian > > P.S.: If this is at all impossible, I will just add these arrows in an > external program, but I quite like the fact that it is possible to prepare > publication-ready pictures with just Jmol -> adjust resolution/shadows in > textfile -> povray. > > > ______ > > Kilian Bärwinkel, M.Sc. > > Lehrstuhl für Anorganische Chemie III > Gebäude NW 1 > Universität Bayreuth > Universitätsstr. 30 > 95447 Bayreuth > > Tel: +49 921 55 - 3653 > Fax: +49 921 55 - 2788 > > e-mail: kilian.baerwin...@uni-bayreuth.de > > http://www.senker.uni-bayreuth.de > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Presto, an open source distributed SQL query engine for big data, initially > developed by Facebook, enables you to easily query your data on Hadoop in a > more interactive manner. Teradata is also now providing full enterprise > support for Presto. Download a free open source copy now. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=250295911&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Presto, an open source distributed SQL query engine for big data, initially developed by Facebook, enables you to easily query your data on Hadoop in a more interactive manner. Teradata is also now providing full enterprise support for Presto. Download a free open source copy now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=250295911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users