[Chimera-users] a problem with silhouettes

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Alja,

   Those little ellipses scattered all over are the end-caps of the 
ribbon helices being drawn in the wrong place.  That is a bug. You 
should use Help / Report a Bug to send us a report that will include 
your graphics driver version and operating system.  I could imagine this 
bug happening in Chimera daily builds because I have changed the ribbon 
drawing code.  But it is surprising to see it in the Chimera 1.6 
production release.  If it is in a daily build try the latest daily 
build.  If it is in Chimera 1.6 it is most likely a graphics driver 
bug.  You can try to update your graphics driver or use a different 
computer to make this image.

     Tom


> Hi Tom,
>
> you're right. Sorry I haven't thought of that myself.
> Here's an image.
>
> Alja
>
> ________________________________________
> Od: Tom Goddard
> Poslano: 17. avgust 2012 2:01
> Za: Alja Oblak
> Cc: chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu
> Zadeva: Re: [Chimera-users] a problem with silhouettes
>
> Sending an example image might help debug this.
>
>       Tom
>
>> Dear Chimera users,
>>
>> I am trying to create an image for a publication using Chimera 1.6.1.
>> Whenever I turn on "silhouette" dark spots appear on the screen and on the saved image. They seem totally random but they move along with the structure when rotated. When I zoom on them they look like small "umbrella-shaped" discs. The "show shadows" option is turned off.
>> Does anybody know what are those spots and how to get rid of them?
>>
>> Thank you very much for any help.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alja Oblak
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