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.
> 
> 
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> 
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