Idea: selection haloes

[matt]

Presently, vsr does not display special properties of atoms, such a frozenness. I think that a good way to display this may be a semi-transparent colored sphere surrounding the atom with about 10% greater radius. Thoughts?

[ryeterrell]

Matt, I looked into this, but it turns out the if we are to use the opengl blending capability, we have to render from back to front in order to render transparent polys. I can't see how to do this without losing the compiled list speedup (huge).

Wire frame spheres are easy to do, however. I tried it out with the frozen atoms, and it was trivial. I'll try this for atom selection over the next few days if you dont get to it first.

[matt]

Wireframe sounds good. It doesn't convey selection to me, but it is cheap.

[ryeterrell]

It doesn't particularly convey selection to me, either. Any other ideas, though?