Among other things, Andrew C wrote:

> Actually, I was wondering if anyone out there has done a macro package
> for building various molecules in POV-Ray yet... surely there's enough
> people interested that the possibility exists. ;-)

I remember a little program called "chempov" or something like that which 
created an input file por POV-Ray. There are other chemistry software 
packages (like HyperChem) which can export to POV for cool rendering.

Anyway, this kind of balls-and-sticks model is quite easy to do with POV, 
you just need the coordinates of the nuclei and the connectivity (which 
atom is bonded to which atom). Things become harder when you intend to 
display isopotential surfaces, orbital shapes, lagrangian isosurfaces... ;)

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light_source{9+9*x,1}camera{orthographic look_at(1-y)/4angle 30location
9/4-z*4}light_source{-9*z,1}union{box{.9-z.1+x clipped_by{plane{2+y-4*x
0}}}box{z-y-.1.1+z}box{-.1.1+x}box{.1z-.1}pigment{rgb<.8.2,1>}}//Jellby

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