Define here the visual style applied by default to new bonds.
Style
This menu controls which style is applied by default when creating a new
bond: a cylinder in
solid mode or a line in
wired mode.
Cylinders provide a better visual quality, when coupled with lights,
but demand more screen space and processing time.
Lines become poorly visible when using lights, unless the ambient component
is significant, as diffuse and specular lights are not reflected.
Size
This parameter controls the size applied by default when creating
bonds in
Solid mode. Combining bond
Size with atom
Variancy and
Size, it is possible to obtain a wide
range of styles to represent atomic structures.
The default is to represent atoms (
Size =
0.8) slightly
larger than bonds (
Size =
0.5). An elegant style is to
represent bonds with the same
Size as atoms (
0.5).
To guarantee that bond cylinders are closed by atom spheres,
bond
Size should not be larger than atom
Size.
Color
This button controls whether by default the bond is represented
with its own, independent color, or inherits the colors of the parent atoms.
R, G, B
These entries set the color used by default, between black (0.0, 0.0, 0.0)
and white (1.0, 1.0, 1.0), when bonds are rendered with their own independent
color.