Hi folks, I found a bug in the povray output from PyMOL, when using the orthographic perspective (the perspective projection is ok):
I had been playing around with using povray to make fancy images from PyMOL output, but I noticed (actually somebody else did, I was too busy admiring the special effects that I could create!) that the povray output file that I created from pymol gives a mirror image. I simply create my povray input file with: (header,data) = cmd.get_povray() povfile=open(file,'w') povfile.write(header) povfile.write(data) povfile.close() The header looks something like: camera {orthographic location <0.0 , 0.0 , 146.8305816650> look_at <0.0 , 0.0 , -1.0> right 64.2756500244*x up 65.9462890625*y} #default { finish{phong 0.800 ambient 0.120 diffuse 1.080 phong_size 25.000000}} light_source{<4000.0001,4000.0001,9853.1694> rgb<1.0,1.0,1.0>} plane{z , -236.2687 pigment{color rgb<1.0000,1.0000,1.0000>} finish{phong 0 specular 0 diffuse 0 ambient 1.0}} The second line contains the information that describes the view. To correct the image, I had to change the sign of the X-axis (the "right" parameter). Thus changing: look_at <0.0 , 0.0 , -1.0> right 64.2756500244*x up 65.9462890625*y} to: look_at <0.0 , 0.0 , -1.0> right -64.2756500244*x up 65.9462890625*y} Since it would be a pain to have to edit the povray file all the time, I went looking for the word "look_at" in the sournce and I found the offending lines in layer1/Ray.c (line 508). The diff to my correction looks like: *** ./Ray.c.orig Fri Aug 16 14:35:05 2002 --- Ray.c Fri Aug 16 13:46:33 2002 *************** *** 507,509 **** sprintf(buffer,"camera {orthographic location <0.0 , 0.0 , %12.10f>\nlook_at <0.0 , 0.0 , -1.0> right %12.10f*x up %12.10f*y}\n", ! front,I->Range[0],I->Range[1]); } --- 507,509 ---- sprintf(buffer,"camera {orthographic location <0.0 , 0.0 , %12.10f>\nlook_at <0.0 , 0.0 , -1.0> right %12.10f*x up %12.10f*y}\n", ! front,-1*I->Range[0],I->Range[1]); } That is, I simply multiplied I->Range[0] by -1 to swap the hand of the resulting image. Hope this helps any confused povray-ers out there, Robert -- Robert L. Campbell, Ph.D. http://biophysics.med.jhmi.edu/rlc r...@k2.med.jhmi.edu phone: 410-614-6313 Research Specialist/X-ray Facility Manager HHMI/Dept. of Biophysics & Biophysical Chem., The Johns Hopkins University PGP Fingerprint: 9B49 3D3F A489 05DC B35C 8E33 F238 A8F5 F635 C0E2