PyMOL-RS – Rust reimplementation of PyMOL with modern rendering
Well, it happened. After endless release candidates, we've finally made it to v0.1.0. What's inside: GPU-accelerated rendering with WebGPU shaders, shadows, and goodies like silhouette edges and a special soft-light mode Core operations run up to 1000x faster than the original PyMOL. Surface generation that used to send you on a coffee run now finishes the moment you hit the button Full PyMOL selection algebra support — 95+ keywords, boolean logic, distance/expansion operators, slash-macros Distance, angle, and dihedral measurements, atom labels — everything you need for structural…
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