| Program | MOLMOL |
| Description | MOLMOL is a molecular graphics program for displaying, analyzing, and manipulating the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules, with special emphasis on the study of protein or DNA structures determined by NMR |
| Input | pdb |
| Output | ? |
| Documentation | HTML, Gallery, Movie, Mailing List Archive |
| Platforms | SGI, SUN, DEC, IBM, Linux, Windows NT, Windows 95 |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene |
| Author | Reto
Koradi ,
Martin
Billeter ,
Kurt Wüthrich ![]() |
| Reference | Koradi, R., Billeter, M., and
Wüthrich, K. (1996) J. Mol. Graphics 14, 51-55.
MOLMOL: a program for display and analysis of macromolecular structures. |
| Related programs | Prepi, Ribbons, VMD |
| Program | MolScript v2.1.2 |
| Description | Schematic and detailed representation of macromolecules |
| Input | ASCII text, (interactive OpenGL) |
| Output | PostScript, Raster3D, VRML 2.0, SGI (RGB), JPEG, EPS, PNG, GIF |
| Documentation | HTML, HTML, Gallery |
| Platforms, Libs | C Source, OpenGL (or MESA), GLUT, JPEG, gd), SGI |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene, grate, spin |
| Author | Per Kraulis ![]() |
| Reference | Per J. Kraulis
MOLSCRIPT: A program to produce both detailed and schematic plots of protein structures. J. Appl. Cryst (1991) vol 24, 946-950 |
| Related programs | MolScript v1.4, Raster3D, gl_render |
| Program | Molscript v1.4 |
| Description | Schematic and detailed representation of macro molecules |
| Input | ASCII text |
| Output | PostScript, Raster3D |
| Documentation | HTML |
| Platforms, Libs | Fortran Source, SGI, DEC Alpha |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene, grate, spin, blend |
| Author | Per Kraulis ![]() |
| Reference | Per J. Kraulis
MOLSCRIPT: A program to produce both detailed and schematic plots of protein structures. J. Appl. Cryst (1991) vol 24, 946-950 |
| Related programs | Molscript v2.12, Raster3D, gl_render |
| Program | BobScript v2.4 |
| Description | Schematic and detailed representation of macro molecules |
| Input | ASCII text |
| Output | PostScript, Raster3D |
| Documentation | Text, HTML, HTML |
| Platforms, Libs | Fortran Source, SGI, LINUX |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene, grate, spin, thyme |
| Author | Robert M. Esnouf ![]() |
| Reference | 1)Robert M. Esnouf
"An extensively modified version of MolScript that includes greatly enhanced coloring capabilities" Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modeling 15 (1997) 132-134. 2)ESNOUF, R. M., "Further additions to MolScript version 1.4, including reading and contouring of electron-density maps." Acta Cryst. D55, (1999) 938 - 940. |
| Related programs | MolScript v1.4, MolScript v2.2, Raster3D, gl_render |
| Program | PovScript |
| Description | Schematic and detailed representation of macro molecules |
| Input | ASCII text |
| Output | PostScript, POV-Ray 3.0 |
| Documentation | Text |
| Platforms, Libs | Fortran Source, SGI |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene, grate, spin |
| Author | Daniel
Peisach, ![]() |
| References | ? |
| Related programs | Molscript, POV-Ray, gl_render |
| Program | Midas Plus 2.1 |
| Description | Display an manipulate macromolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids |
| Input | Interactive |
| Output | midas, inventor, rayshade, POV-Ray, screen, tiff |
| Documentation | HTML, Primer, Tutorial, Gallery, man pages, FAQ |
| Platforms, Libs | SGI, DEC Alpha, NeXT, Linux |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene, grate, spin |
| Author | Conrad Huang, Greg Couch, Thomas Ferrin, UCSF Computer Graphics |
| Reference | ? |
| Related programs | MolMol, Molscript, Ribbons |
| Program | MolView 1.4.8 |
| Description | Display macromolecules |
| Input | Interactive |
| Output | Object-oriented PICT, QuickDraw 3D 3DMF, QuickTime movies, DXF |
| Documentation | ? |
| Platforms, Libs | MacIntosh |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | Tom Smith, ![]() |
| Reference | ? |
| Related programs | Rasmol |
| Program | pdb2pov v1.23 |
| Description | Converts pdb files to POV-Ray v3.x scene files |
| Input | PDB, ASCII (?) |
| Output | POV-Ray scene files; [.tga] |
| Documentation | Text |
| Platforms, Libs | SGI, Win32, LINUX, HP, MacIntosh, Amiga |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | Eric
G. Suchanek, ![]() |
| Reference | ? |
| Related programs | POV-Ray, pdb2iv |
| Program | Prepi
0.95
Protein Representations Interactively |
| Description | It is used to easily produce and interactively manipulate different types of molecular representations. |
| Input | Interactive, PDB, CSD, PREPI, Alchemy, CS Chem3D, MDL, Macromodel, MSI, SMD, SYBYL, MOPAC, FLE |
| Output | Interactive image capture, output for raytracer (?), Examples |
| Documentation | General features |
| Platforms, Libs | SGI |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | Suhail
A. Islam, ,
Michael J. E.
Sternberg, ![]() |
| Reference | ? |
| Related programs | MolMol, Molscript, Ribbons, Setor |
| Program | RasMol 2.6, 2ab2Beta, 2.7.1 |
| Description | Visualization of molecular structures |
| Input | Interactive, PDB |
| Output | MolScript input |
| Documentation | Manual, Quick Start, Gallery, FAQ, Discussion |
| Platforms | SGI, DEC Alpha, Win, MacIntosh, NextStep, Acorn RISC OS |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene, grate, spin, chop, blend, isar |
| Author | Roger Sayle, ,
Andreas Bohne, ,
Herbert Bernstein ![]() |
| Reference | Biomolecular Structures Group, Glaxo Wellcome Research
& Development
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK Version 2.6, August 1995, Version 2.6.4, December 1998 Copyright © Roger Sayle 1992-1999 |
| Related programs | Chime, Setor |
| Program | Ribbons 2.0 |
| Description | Interactively display molecular models, analyze crystallographic results and create publication quality images. |
| Input | Interactive |
| Output | rgb, POV-Ray, rayshade, wavefront, radiance |
| Documentation | Manual, Gallery |
| Platforms | SGI, C Source |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene, grate, spin |
| Author | Mike
Carson, ![]() |
| Reference | See
online references by Mike Carson
Latest reference: M. Carson (1997) Ribbons. Methods in Enzymology 277: Macromolecular Crystallography, R. M. Sweet and C.W.Carter, eds, Academic Press. (in press) |
| Related programs | Setor, MolMol, MolScript, Prepi |
| Program | Scarecrow |
| Description | Display and manipulate trajectory files generated by molecular dynamics simulations. |
| Input | Interactive, Discover, CHARMM, PDB, MOPAC, YASP, GAMESS, AMBER, GROMOS, HyperChem |
| Output | ? |
| Documentation | Text |
| Platforms | C Source |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | Leif
Laaksonen, ![]() |
| Reference | Leif Laaksonen, "A graphics program for the analysis and display of molecular dynamics trajectories", J. Mol. Graph. 10 (1992) 33. |
| Related programs | INSIGHT II/ Discover, Quanta/ CHARMM |
| Program | Setor 4.13.23 |
| Description | To render high-quality raster images of macromolecules |
| Input | Interactive, PDB, X-PLOR maps |
| Output | rgb, SETORPLOT |
| Documentation | postscript, man pages for phipsi, plotsee and posterplot, Gallery |
| Platforms | SGI |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene, grate, spin |
| Author | Stephen V. Evans, ![]() |
| Reference | S. V Evans, J. Mol. Graphics, 1993, Vol. 11, p. 134 |
| Related programs | phipsi, plotsee, posterplot, Ribbons, MolScript, Spock |
| Program | Spock |
| Description | Molecular Graphics: display, manipulate macromolecules, modelbuilding, surfaces, conferencing. |
| Input | Interactive, PDB, X-PLOR maps, DSSP, Grasp/Delphi, MORASS, AMBER |
| Output | rgb, MolScript, Raster3D,VRML 1.0 / 2.0, |
| Documentation | HTML Manual, Gallery |
| Platforms, Libs | SGI, LINUX, Mesa |
| Installed on | wiggle (temporarily) |
| Author | Jon
A. Christopher, ![]() |
| Reference | ? |
| Related programs | MolScript v2.2, BobScript, gl_render, ribbons, Raster3D |
| Program | VMD
1.3
Visual Molecular Dynamics |
| Description | Visualization and analysis of biological macromolecules |
| Input | Interactive, a wide variety of coordinate formats is accepted. |
| Output | rgb, POV-Ray, Rayshade, Raster3D, TkRaster3D, Radiance |
| Documentation | Quick Help, FAQ, Mailing List Archive, Gallery, Movie |
| Platforms, Libs | SGI, LINUX, SUN, HP, IBM AIX, DEC Alpha, OpenGL or Mesa, Perl 5.x |
| Installed on | Thalia, Caliope, Irene, grate, spin |
| Authors | Contact
VMD developers, Justin Gullingsrud, ,
John Stone, Andrew
Dahlke, W. Humphrey, Jeff
Ulrich, Klaus Schulten |
| Reference | VMD
-- Visual Molecular Dynamics, W. Humphrey, A. Dalke, K. Schulten,
J. Mol. Graphics, v. 14 no. 1, pp 33-38 (1996). |
| Related programs | NAMD, InsightII |
| Program | MolPov 1.1 |
| Description | Convert PDB files in ready-to-render input files for POV-Ray |
| Input | PDB |
| Output | POV-Ray scene files; [tga] |
| Documentation | ? |
| Platforms, Libs | Windows 95 |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | David
Richardson, ![]() |
| Reference | ? |
| Related programs | PovChem, vrml2pov |
| Program | Re_View |
| Description | 4D-chemical viewer/analyser ; 3D-molecular display and animation (4D) mostly small molecules |
| Input | XYZ files, MOPAC |
| Output | GIF, TIFF, input for raytracers (?) |
| Documentation | Manual, FAQ |
| Platforms, Libs | Windows 3.1, Win95/NT |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | Jeff
Gosper, ![]() |
| Reference | ? |
| Related programs | ? |
| Program | ASC
2.1
Analytical Surface Calculation |
| Description | Molecular-mechanical calculations in conjunction with surface computations |
| Input | PDB |
| Output | ? |
| Documentation | Manual, Reference Manual |
| Platforms, Libs | Source, |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | Frank
Eisenhaber, ![]() |
| Reference | ? |
| Related programs | GRASP, MSMS |
| Program | GRASP
Graphical Representation and Analysis of Strucural Properties |
| Description | Visualization and analysis of surfaces. Particularly useful for the calculation of electrostatic properties of macromolecules. |
| Input | Interactive, macros, PDB |
| Output | rgb, surface files |
| Documentation | Manual, HTML, Images, Slide show, Primer |
| Platforms, Libs | SGI |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene, grate, spin |
| Author | Anthony Nicholls. Grasp info:
; Barry
Honig, Kim
Sharp |
| Reference | Nicholls, A., Sharp, K. A.,
and Honig, B. "Protein folding and association:insights from the interfacial
and thermodynamic properties of hydrocarbons. "
Proteins Struct. Funct. Gen. (1991) 11, 282. |
| Related programs | GRASS, ASC, MSMS, ungrasp (grasp2r3d) + Raster3D, MSP, gl_render, Spock |
| Program | GRASS
Graphical Representation and Analysis of Structure Server |
| Description | GRASS aims at providing sophisticated molecular graphics capabilities to scientists without requiring extensivetraining in complicated molecular graphics software or access to expensive graphics equipment. |
| Input | Server searches PDB (by code, author, source, etc.), your own PDB file. |
| Output | Images (gif, jpeg ?), VRML |
| Documentation | ? |
| Platforms, Libs | may require a local installation of GRASP |
| Installed on | this is a remote server; use your browser. |
| Author | (Implementation) Murad Nayal, ,
Ben Hitz . |
| Reference | ? |
| Related programs | GRASP |
| Program | MSMS
Michel Sanner's Molecular Surface or Maximal Speed Molecular Surface |
| Description | Compute triangulations of solvent excluded surfaces |
| Input | XYZR file ( use pdb_to_xyzr to convert a pdb file) |
| Output | face and vertex files |
| Documentation | man pages, man page, short info, Gallery |
| Platforms, Libs | SGI, DEC Alpha, HP and SUN, Web Server |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene |
| Author | Michel
Sanner, ![]() |
| Reference | Sanner, M.F., Spehner, J.-C., and Olson, A.J. (1996) Reduced surface: an efficient way to compute molecular surfaces. Biopolymers, Vol. 38, (3), 305-320. |
| Related programs | MSV (molecular surface viewer), GRASP, ASC, Spock, MSP, Surfnet |
| Program | MSP
Molecular Surface Package |
| Description | Calculation of molecular surfaces |
| Input | pdb |
| Output | sgi, sun, avsimage,avsfield |
| Documentation | HTML, Demo |
| Platforms, Libs | C Source, Fortran Source |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | Michael
L. Connolly, ![]() |
| Reference | M. Connolly's publications |
| Related programs | ASC, GRASP, MSMS, Surfnet |
| Program | Chain |
| Description | Modelbuilding into electron-density |
| Input | pdb |
| Output | pdb |
| Documentation | Text, Text, |
| Platforms | SGI (Irix 4.05 - 6.2) |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | Jack S. Sack, Alex Nickitenko ![]() |
| Reference | J. S. Sack,"CHAIN - A Crystallographic
Modeling Program "
J. Mol. Graphics, 6: 224-225 (1988). |
| Related programs | Frodo, MAIN, O, XtalView |
| Program | TURBO FRODO, TURBOx |
| Description | General purpose modelling environment to model de novo macromolecules and to build chains into electron density. |
| Input | pdb, dsn6, (CCP4, PROTEIN maps ), NMR data in XPLOR format, proton file (EASY format) |
| Output | pdb |
| Documentation | HTML, Gallery, FAQ, Mailing list, Doc |
| Platforms, Libs | SGI, LINUX, HP |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | Contact |
| Reference | FRODO T.A. Jones, "A graphics
model building and refinement system for macromolecules",
J. Appl. Cryst. 11, 268-272 (1978). |
| Related programs | MAIN, O, XtalView |
| Program | Main '97 |
| Description | Main does everything ! |
| Input | anything |
| Output | everything |
| Documentation | HTML, Notes, FAQ |
| Platforms, Libs | SGI |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene, grate, spin, chop (no graphics) |
| Author | Dusan Turk ![]() |
| Reference | Turk, D. (1992) Weiterentwicklung
eines Programms für Molekülgraphik und Elektrondichte-Manipulation
und seine Anwendung auf verschiedene Protein-Strukturaufklärungen.
Ph.D. Thesis, Technische Universität, München.
D.Turk: "MAIN 96: An interactive software for density modifications, model building, structure refinement and analysis." Proceedings from the 1996 meeting of the International Union of Crystallography Macromolecular Computing School, eds P.E. Bourne & K. Watenpaugh. This 'MAIN 96' paper is included in the proceedings of the IUCr 96 Computational School and will be published within a book sometime in a future. |
| Related programs | FRODO, O, XtalView |
| Program | O 6.2.2 |
| Description | Modeling program |
| Input | pdb, CCP4, XPLOR, dsn6 maps |
| Output | pdb |
| Documentation | HTML, FAQ, Mailing list archive |
| Platforms, Libs | SGI, DEC Alpha, Linux, Sun |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene, Nina, grate, spin, isar, blend, wiggle |
| Author | Alwyn
T.Jones ,
Morten Kjeldgaard ![]() |
| Reference | see, 1, 2 |
| Related programs | FRODO, MAIN, XtalView |
| Program | Pronto |
| Description | Model building (similar to O) |
| Input | pdb |
| Output | pdb |
| Documentation | Not available |
| Platforms | probably SGI |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | Swanson |
| Reference | ? |
| Related programs | FRODO, O, MAIN, XtalView |
| Program | XtalView 3.2 |
| Description | XtalView is a complete package for solving a macromolecular crystal structure by isomorphous replacement, including building the molecular model |
| Input | pdb |
| Output | pdb, maps |
| Documentation | Guide, HTML, |
| Platforms | SGI, DEC Alpha, IBM, Linux |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene, isar, blend, chop |
| Author | Duncan
E. McRee ![]() |
| Reference | Practical Protein Crystallography, Duncan E. McRee (1993). Book, 386 pp. published by Academic Press, San Diego, CA. ISBN 0-12-486050-8. |
| Related programs | FRODO, O, MAIN |
| Program | Raster3D 2.4h |
| Description | Raster3D is a set of tools for generating high quality raster images of proteins or other molecules. |
| Input | pdb, r3d |
| Output | tiff, sgi (rgb), avs |
| Documentation | HTML, HTML, FAQ, Gallery |
| Platforms | Essentially all, Fortran Source |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene, grate, spin, chop, blend, thyme |
| Author | Ethan
A. Merritt ![]() |
| Reference | Most recent:
Merritt, Ethan A. and Bacon, David J. (1997). "Raster3D: Photorealistic Molecular Graphics" Methods in Enzymology 277, 505-524. |
| Related programs | TkRaster3D, POV-Ray, Rayshade, Radiance, BMRT, RenderMan, gl_render |
| Program | TkRaster3D 1.4b |
| Description | TkRaster3D is a graphical user interface to the molecular rendering package Raster3D |
| Input | pdb |
| Output | sgi, tiff |
| Documentation | Text |
| Platforms, Libs | SGI; TclTk |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene, grate, spin |
| Author | Hillary
S. R. Gilson ![]() |
| Reference | ? |
| Related programs | Raster3D, MolScript |
| Program | Surfnet 1.4 |
| Description | The program generates surfaces and void regions between surfaces from coordinate data supplied in a PDB file. Van der Waals surfaces, Gaps between molecules, clefts, cavities, binding sites, 3D density distributions, sidechain-sidechain interactiosn , planes, paraboloids and boxes. |
| Input | ? |
| Output | ? |
| Documentation | HTML, |
| Platforms | ? |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | Roman
Laskowski, ![]() |
| Reference | Laskowski R A (1995). "SURFNET:
A program for visualizing molecular surfaces, cavities and intermolecular
interactions. "
J. Mol. Graph., 13, 323-330 |
| Related programs | GRASP, ASC, MSP, MSMS |
| Program | AMBER
5
Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement |
| Description | AMBER refers to two things:
1) a molecular mechanical force field for the simulation of biomolecules (which is in general use in a variety of simulation programs). 2) a package of molecular simulation programs which includes source code and demos. |
| Input | File formats |
| Output | File formats |
| Documentation | PDF, text, tutorial |
| Platforms | SGI, SUN, PC, HP, DEC, IBM RISC 6000 & more, FORTRAN source |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | Peter Kollman, Dave Case, Ken Merz, David Ferguson, Tom Darden, Dave Pearlman |
| Reference | 1) D.A. Case, D.A. Pearlman, J.W. Caldwell,
T.E. Cheatham III, W.S. Ross, C.L. Simmerling, T.A. Darden,
K.M. Merz, R.V. Stanton, A.L. Cheng, J.J. Vincent, M. Crowley,
D.M. Ferguson, R.J. Radmer, G.L. Seibel,
U.C. Singh, P.K. Weiner and P.A. Kollman (1997), AMBER
5, University of
California, San Francisco. 2)D.A. Pearlman, D.A. Case, J.W. Caldwell, W.S. Ross, T.E. Cheatham, III, S. DeBolt, D. Ferguson, G. Seibel, and P. Kollman. "AMBER, a package of computer programs for applying molecular mechanics, normal mode analysis, molecular dynamics and free energy calculations to simulate the structural and energetic properties of molecules. " Comp. Phys. Commun. 91, 1-41 (1995). |
| Related programs | CNS, X-PLOR, Main |
| Program | BRAGI |
| Description | BRAGI is a interactive protein-modelling program. It was developed for the special purpose to modell unknown proteins from the structure of a known one. |
| Input | ? |
| Output | ? |
| Documentation | Gallery |
| Platforms, Libs | SGI, HP, DEC, SUN, Linux, Mesa |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | J. Reichelt, D.
Schomburg, ,
B. Boehnke, P. Uhde |
| Reference | ? |
| Related programs | Amber, Insight II, MacroModel |
| Program | Insight II |
| Description | Insight II is a 3D graphical environment for molecular modeling |
| Input | pdb, Ampac/Mopac/Archive, MDL, Sybyi, CSD, Free, CHARMm, Quanta, Xplor |
| Output | see input. |
| Documentation | Manuals and pdf |
| Platforms | SGI |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope |
| Author | MSI |
| Reference | ? |
| Related programs | Amber, Bragi, MacroModel |
| Program | MacroModel 6.5 |
| Description | The MacroModel molecular modeling software package allows the user to construct and graphically manipulate both simple and complex chemical tructures, to apply molecular mechanics and dynamics techniques to evaluate the energies and geometries of molecules in vacuo or in solution, and to display and examine graphically the results of the modeling calculations. |
| Input | ? |
| Output | ? |
| Documentation | HTML, FAQ |
| Platforms, Libs | SGI, IBM/RS 6000, for details see: |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | W. Clark Still, ,
Herc Silverstein, ,
Peter Shenkin
www.schrodinger.com has assumed responsibility for MacroModel |
| Reference | Mohamadi, F.; Richards, N. G. J.; Guida, W. C.; Liskamp,
R.; Lipton, M.; Caufield, C.; Chang, G.; Hendrickson, T.; Still, W. C.
,
"MacroModel-An Integrated Software System for Modeling Organic and Bioorganic Molecules using Molecular Mechanics", J. Comput. Chem. 1990, 11, 440. |
| Related programs | Insight II, Amber, Bragi |
| Program | MMTK
Molecular Modelling Toolkit |
| Description | The Molecular Modelling Toolkit is a program library for molecular modelling applications. Its aim is to provide researchers, especially those working on the development of new simulation and modelling methods, with a code basis that can be easily extended and modified to deal with standard and non-standard problems in molecular modelling |
| Input | ? |
| Output | ? |
| Documentation | Manual, Examples, |
| Platforms, Libs | Python |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | ? |
| Reference | ? |
| Related programs | ? |
| Program | MODELLER |
| Description | MODELLER is a program for homology protein structure modelling by satisfaction of spatial restraints. |
| Input | ? |
| Output | ? |
| Documentation | HTML, postscript, FAQ, Mailing list |
| Platforms | ? |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | Andrej Sali, ![]() |
| Reference | ? |
| Related programs | Insight, Quanta, |
| Program | Squid |
| Description | A program to display/analysis/validate
molecular structures, carry out MD analysis,
draw 2D/3D/4D grapical representation of data, do data processing, + a macro language |
| Input | ? |
| Output | ? |
| Documentation | HTML |
| Platforms, Libs | SGI |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | Tom
Oldfield, ,
see also |
| Reference | ? |
| Related programs | Main, Whatif |
| Program | WHAT IF |
| Description | WHAT IF is a versatile protein structure analysis
program that can be used for mutant
prediction, structure verification, molecular graphics, etc. |
| Input | pdb |
| Output | ? |
| Documentation | HTML |
| Platforms | SGI, DEC, (fortran source) |
| Installed on | Isar ? |
| Author | Gerd
Vriend, ![]() |
| Reference | WHAT IF: A molecular modeling and drug design program.
G.Vriend, J. Mol. Graph. (1990) 8, 52-56. |
| Related programs | Main, What_check |
| Program | POV-Ray 3.02 / 3.1 |
| Description | Ray tracer |
| Input | ascii file, povray's script language |
| Output | .tga |
| Documentation | HTML, HTML 3.1 |
| Platforms | UNIX ( c source ), MacIntosh, PC |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene, blend, chop, tubby, wiggle, thyme |
| Author | many contributors, |
| Reference | "Persitence of Vision Ray Tracer v3.02 Copyright 1997 POV-Teamhttp://www.povray.org" |
| Related programs | BMRT, Raster3D, Radiance, Rayshade, |
| Program | BMRT |
| Description | The Blue Moon Rendering Tools (BMRT) are a collection of rendering programs which adhere to the RenderMan(R) interface standard (RenderMan is a registered trademark of Pixar) |
| Input | ? |
| Output | ? |
| Documentation | Paper, HTML, Gallery |
| Platforms | SGI, Linux, NEXTSTEP, Sun, Windows 95 |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | Larry Gritz, James K. Hahn |
| Reference | Larry Gritz and James K. Hahn Journal of Graphics Tools, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 29-47 (1996) |
| Related programs | POV-Ray, Radiance,
Rayshade, Raster3D
Pixar |
| Program | Radiance |
| Description | Radiance is a suite of programs for the analysis and visualization of lighting in design. |
| Input | ? |
| Output | ? |
| Documentation | HTML, Gallery, Archive, Tutorial |
| Platforms | SGI, SUN, Source |
| Installed on | NONE |
| Author | G.W. Larson, R.A.Shakespeare, Radiance Help ![]() |
| Reference | Larson, G.W. and R.A. Shakespeare, Rendering with Radiance: the Art and Science of Lighting Visualization, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998 |
| Related programs | BMRT, POV-Ray, Rayshade, Raster3D |
| Program | Rayshade |
| Description | Rayshade is an extensible system for creating ray-traced images. |
| Input | Rayshade syntax |
| Output | .rle |
| Documentation | Quick reference, postscript, ascii, Archive, Gallery, Tutorial |
| Platforms | UNIX, C Source, lex, yacc |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene |
| Author | Craig
Kolb ,
David Dobkin, Rod Bogart,
Help: Stephen
Peter |
| Reference | ? |
| Related programs | BMRT, POV-Ray,
Raster3D, Radiance,
UTAH Raster Toolkit |
| Program | Gl_render |
| Description | Front-end to Mol/Bobscript and Raster3D/Povray |
| Input | ASCII input for molscript or raster3d input (.r3d); interactive |
| Output | tiff, rgb (sgi) or tga |
| Documentation | Html, Gallery |
| Platforms | SGI, Dec Alpha, Linux PC |
| Installed on | Thalia, Calliope, Irene, grate, spin, blend, isar, wiggle, thyme |
| Author | Lothar Esser, ![]() |
| Reference | Not yet finished |
| Related programs | Molscript, Bobscript, Raster3d, Povray, Spock |
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