ATO, ATOMS

NAME
ATO, ATOMS - change drawing style for atoms.

SYNOPSIS
ATO style
ATOMS style

DESCRIPTION
Change drawing style for atoms. Atom style is defined separately from bond style. For BALLS, BIG and SPACEFILL style, atom sizes are read from .garlicrc file. If this file is not available, hard-coded defaults are used.

STYLE DESCRIPTION SIZE
0 Unvisible atoms Fixed
1 A single pixel Fixed
2 3x3 cross (5 pixels) Fixed
3 3x3 square (9 pixels) Fixed
4 5x5 circle (21 pixel) Fixed
5 7x7 square (37 pixels) Fixed
6 9x9 circle (61 pixel) Fixed
7 11x11 circle (109 pixels) Fixed
bal
balls 		Balls (suitable to draw balls and sticks) Proportional
ba2 Balls with enhanced contrast Proportional
big Big (oversized atoms) Proportional
bi2 Big with enhanced contrast Proportional
spa
spacefill 		Spacefill style;
the size of atom depends on atom type 		Proportional
sp2 Spacefill style with enhanced contrast;
the size of atom depends on atom type 		Proportional

NOTES
(1) Unvisible atoms (style 0) are not treated as hidden - they are just invisible.

(2) A good performance and fairly good contrast may be achieved choosing atom drawing style 0 (no pixels) and bond drawing style 2 (line width of three pixels).

RELATED COMMANDS
BON (BONDS) changes drawing style for bonds.