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What's New in CrystalMaker 4.0?
Smoothed Graphics

CrystalMaker 4.0 now features smooth-shaded lines, bonds and polyhedra. Screen graphics have greater finesse and show much more detail than before. The new smoothed graphics replace the former "High Resolution"screen graphics mode: the new graphics provide a similar onscreen quality, with only one quarter the memory requirement. Furthermore, smoothed graphics can now be printed or recorded in pixel map PICT files.

Wireframe plots use smoothed graphics by default. Note that lines are now plotted according to custom bond styles, e.g., banded bond cylinders are represented by striped lines.
Ball-and-stick and stick plots show smoothed bond cylinders at all resolutions. If you have the "Fast Rotation" setting, these bonds will be approximated by unsmoothed lines during screen rotation. After rotation has been completed, structures are automatically replotted in the full glory.
Polyhedra have smooth edges, picked out in the highlight colours, as defined by the Rendering/Reflectance Options dialog.
Unit Cell Edges are now drawn using smooth lines.

Important Notes:-

Your monitor must be set to display thousands (16-bit colour) or millions (32-bit colour) of colours for smoothed graphics to operate.
CrystalMaker is optimized for use in 16- or 32-bit colour. We strongly recommend using 16-bit/"thousands" (faster) or 32-bit/"millions" (highest quality; slower plotting) compared to 8-bit/"256 colours" graphics. To change your monitor's colour depth, go to the Monitors control panel (System 7) or the "Monitors and Sound" control panel (MacOS8) and choose a new colour depth; you may need to change the screen resolution (numbers of pixels) in order to get more colours.
Smoothed graphics are slower to plot than unsmoothed graphics. We therefore recommend that unless you have a very fast computer, you leave the Rendering > Fast Rotation Mode option selected. If you are making QuickTime movies and wish to record smooth bonds during on-screen manipulation and rotation, you should select the Rendering > Full Rendering Mode menu command.

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