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Rendering Modes

CrystalMaker has three rendering modes, providing colour, greyscale or black-and-white graphics. For the most spectacular, photo-realistic output, you will probably want to use Colour mode - but you will also need to choose "photo-realistic" styles for atoms, bonds and polyhedra, via the Model Options window.

Photo-realistic plots can be extensively customized using the Rendering Options window to control light intensities, directions and model reflection coefficients.

The greyscale mode is useful for previewing the output from greyscale printers, whilst the Black-and-White mode is useful for preparing simple "line art" diagrams for publication, or for handouts.