Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing in the WinGX Package


The WinGX package offers two possibilities for producing presentation and publication quality ray-traced illustrations of molecular and crystal packing diagrams, using either the Raster3D package or POV-Ray. The scene-description language of POV-Ray is highly complex and very flexible and the files produced by the WinGX programs contain only the basic components of the scene-description. Users wishing to add more artistic features to these illustrations will need to consult the POV-Ray documentation. The current version of POV-Ray for Windows (at the time of writing version 3.1g) contains full online documentation. The complete POV-Ray manual in several different electronic forms is also available from this site.

Another program which can produce POV-Ray output for crystallographic scenes is DRAWxtl available from http://homestead.juno.com/larry.finger/files/