Tryptophan and fly

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This one was generated using both Moray 2.0 and SwissPDB. In SwissPDB I displayed a spacefill tryptophan in CPK color coding and then exported it as a POV script. This script was then converted to the Moray *.mdl format using POV2MDL.EXE. The scene was then loaded in Moray after which the lighting, the fly object and the surface were added. I took the fly model from the online Moray object library, but forgot who the original author is.

The surface is a 'heightfield map', which are efficient objects that are generally used to create mountains or other raised surfaces. The height of the mountain at each point is taken from the color number or palette index of the pixels in a graphic image file (this can be in JPG, BMP or TGA format). The maximum height is one, which corresponds to the maximum possible color or palette index value in the image file (e.g. white is highest, black is lowest). For this, gray-scale 8-bit images (256 colors or height-levels) are the most suitable. I made the heightfield template in Paintshop Pro 5.0. The heightfield was assigned a soil texture which was taken from the Moray texture library.