Avogadro and Ray Traced Molecular Orbitals/Surfaces

In the last month or two I have been making a large number of changes to the core classes in Avogadro. I will hopefully find the time to discuss this in the near future. One of the other things I have found the time to add is support for rendering meshes in POV-Ray.

The images in this post demonstrate a benzene molecular orbital, and an electrostatic surface potential mapped onto the Van der Waals surface of the molecule. Click on the images to see a big version (1600x1200). There are still lots of improvements but I hope these latest changes will enable people to better visualise surfaces. The addition ofa POV-Ray rendering dialog means that if the command line povray application is installed then Avogadro will automatically execute if for you.

I will hopefully find the time to post more on the changes in Avogadro soon. Life is really busy right now and so I have been a little quieter about progress than usual. Things are still happening and I still want to make your molecules beautiful