title: A new technique in computer modeling of molecules with transparency effect, due to partially stripped surfaces.
abstract: Conventional space filling molecular modeling in computers, using the scan method, takes considerable computer time and effort. In depicting the CPK-image on a computer screen, the hidden-point removal is the main task and on such an image, the front-line atoms hide the back-benchers and their whereabouts become completely unknown, in a given view of the picture. While in search of a simple and faster algorithm for producing surface graphics of molecules, we have developed a novel method, which is considerably faster than the conventional one and it has an interesting transparency-effect which would be useful in the various fields of molecular designs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Crystallography and Biophysics, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, India.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Balasubramanian
authors.forename: Z A
authors.initials: ZA
authors.lastname: Rafi
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008958:Models, Molecular; D012265:Ribonucleotides
chemical_list: D012265:Ribonucleotides