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News & Updates Official Release PyMOL v1.8.2 has been released on April 20, 2016. New Script dssr_block is a wrapper for DSSR (3dna) and creates block-shaped nucleic acid cartoons New Plugin LiSiCA is a new plugin for 2D and 3D ligand based virtual screening using a fast maximum clique algorithm. Official Release PyMOL v1.8.0 has been released on Nov 18, 2015. PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship Schrödinger is now accepting applications for the PyMOL Open-Source Fellowship program! Details on http://pymol.org/fellowship Official Release PyMOL, AxPyMOL, and JyMOL v1.7.6 have all been released on May 4, 2015. New Plugin PyANM is a new plugin for easier Anisotropic Network Model (ANM) building and visualising in PyMOL. New Plugin Bondpack is a collection of PyMOL plugins for easy visualization of atomic bonds. New Plugin MOLE 2.0 is a new plugin for rapid analysis of biomacromolecular channels in PyMOL. 3D using Geforce PyMOL can now be visualized in 3D using Nvidia GeForce video cards (series 400+) with 120Hz monitors and Nvidia 3D Vision, this was previously only possible with Quadro video cards. Older News See Older News.

Did you know... Ray texture == Overview == ray_texture sets what texture PyMol applies to the surface of your object during ray tracing. Options now consist of None Matte 1 Matte 2 Swirl 1 Swirl 2 Fiber Usage set ray_texture, X # where X = 0 ... 5 Examples The thumbnails are most likely too small to see the detail. Please click on each image to see a close up. Ray Texture 0 (None) Ray Texture 1 (Matte 1) Ray Texture 2 (Matte 2) Ray Texture 3 (Swirl1) Ray Texture 4 (Swirl 2) Ray Texture 5 (Fiber) See Also ray_texture_settings

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