The CMC's NASA grant encourages commercialization of our work. Thus we are selling the software. Get the source code and e-mail support for all your questions. A password for an FTP account will be issued. Hopefully we can conduct all business over the internet.
Ribbons is designed to display molecular models as rendered images.
The data required consist of atomic coordinates in Protein Data Bank format and optional files of color-coding information. Interactive control over the material colors and the light sources. Display of simple animation sequences. Full-screen antialiasing for very high quality output images. We pretty much had it going on a test machine here.