In this page you can see some random QuteMol renderings, compared to what you can see on a typical state-of-the-art molecular graphics tools.

All renderings you see here are done in real-time!
Click on any of them to see a 1:1 enlargement.

Note: we are aware that QuteMol is not nearly as complete (as for file formats, visualization modes, extra embedded tools, etc) as many other established molecular visualizers are. It does not aim at replacing any of them. But, in our opinion, things that are done by QuteMol too are done by QuteMol in a far better way!

The Standard way

The QuteMol way

A molecule seen in standard space-fill mode. Its 3D structure is totally unclear.

Let's add self shadows and depth cueing. The clarity improves, but the 3D structure still does not pup up.

A QuteMol rendering with CPU-computed ambient occlusion lighting. Now the 3D structure does pop up! To isolate the effect, here the entire molecule is shown with a 100% white color.

Putting back standard atom colors.

Trying on a much smaller molecule (testosterone, only 12 atoms). Standard direct lighting.

Even for small molecules, our ambient-occlusion adds to the clarity.

A much bigger molecule (more than 60K atoms). Here, a direct lighting is totally unhelpful.

Let's add self shadows and depth cueing. We start seeing something, but the 3D structure is still does not pup up.

A QuteMol rendering: ambient occlusion lighting. Now the 3D structure does pop up! To isolate the effect, here the entire molecule is shown with a 100% white color.

Putting back standard atom colors.

Another test: standard space-fill rendering of a random molecule.

Ambient occlusion.

Thin borders added.

Thicker border.

Depth-aware "halos" added.

QuteMol renderings: some effect added. See here for a more complete list.

Yet another test: standard space-fill rendering of a random molecule.

Ambient occlusion.

Illustrative (aka: NPR) rendering.

Depth aware borders.

With atom colors.

QuteMol renderings: some effect added. See here for a more complete list.

Liquorice mode. Standard renderings (with and without atom colors).

Liquorice mode. QuteMol renderings. Ambient occlusion added.

A nano assembled ball bearing molecule, with and without QuteMol.

Yet another artificial nano enigneered mechaninsm, with and without QuteMol. For this kind of very regular structures the qutemol effects are very useful to help the shape perception process.