Blobalizer

Blobalizer is a molecular visualization based on the paper

Hermosilla, P., Maisch, S., Vazquez, P.-P., & Ropinski, T. (2018). Improving Perception of Molecular Surface Visualizations by Incorporating Translucency Effects. Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine. https://doi.org/10.2312/VCBM.20181244

Blobalizer is written in C++ and uses the magnum engine (see References & Acknowledgements) for rendering. The visualization shows both the solvent excluded surface (SES) and the internal structure of the molecule. The two parts of the molecule are rendered using vastly different rendering techniques and are combined at the end (see Technical Documentation).

The visualization is controlled using a simple GUI and can thus be customized to the users liking (see Usage). For rendered examples see the Gallery.

Download A precompiled version for Windows x64 of Blobalizer can be found on the releases page of our repository on Github.

Building

If you want to compile Blobalizer on your own, you can follow the steps here. A documentation of the code can be found here.