Producing images from Jmol

Comparison: PNG produced by Jmol directly vs. via POV-Ray

(images reduced to fit; see them at full size)

(a) Jmol write PNGT (quality=-1) (c) same with antialias on	(b) Jmol exported to POV-Ray and there converted to PNG (same in both rows)

Made with Jmol 14.3.10; file is 1crn.pdb with a small script including set hermiteLevel -4; set ribbonAspectRatio 12;
POV-Ray settings: alpha transparency on, mosaic preview on