Some years ago, Simon Bunker created the simplest, fascinating RenderMan shader, an X-Ray effect shader.
I have seen hardly any work using it, and I find it useful for molecular and medical imaging, as well as for more creative effects.
Both the above images were created with POVMan, in Mac OS.
An animation of the molecular structure of Morphine, exported from Swiss PDB Viewer to Mac MegaPOV, manually modified in POVMan to use Pixar Renderman Shading Language, and encoded in Apple Quicktime, at 1 frame per degree, through a total of 360 degrees, at 640 x 480 pixels, can be downloaded from :
Morphine X-Ray 640x480 28 MB.
Right click on the video icon and save as MorphineXRay64048028.mov.
Alternatively, lower resolution versions can be seen on either Youtube or Google Video :
Morphine X-Ray Youtube
Morphine X-Ray Google
Simon Bunker's web site, RenderMania. POVMan web site, POVMan examples.
