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Toolbar: Graphics

Icons in the Graphics tab of the Toolbar change aspects of the overall display such as lighting. See also: making images, making movies

icon description command equivalent
computer generated image white background set bgColor white
computer generated image gray background set bgColor gray
computer generated image black background set bgColor black
computer generated image  default lighting: directional and ambient, no shadows lighting simple
computer generated image ambient lighting and ambient shadows lighting soft
computer generated image directional and ambient lighting,
directional and ambient shadows
lighting full
computer generated image ambient lighting, no shadows, silhouettes lighting flat
computer generated image  toggle directional shadows
(turning on directional lighting as needed to show them)
lighting shadows true
(with intensity 0.5 if it was 0)
- OR -
lighting shadows false
computer generated image toggle silhouettes (outlines) graphics silhouettes true
- OR -
graphics silhouettes false
computer generated image view selection view sel
- OR (if nothing is selected) -
view
computer generated image view all view
computer generated image view all, standard orientation view orient
computer generated image show Side View tool show "Side View"

UCSF Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics / May 2020