This renderer and the method have been used to create ChemMedChem last issue’s cover!
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/18607187...

Thanks to this light analytical data structure, it is able to efficiently compute the surface of proteins while allowing high quality illustrations:

What is interesting is that no triangles nor instancing are involved. This is made possible by the analytic description of the surface based on a set of primitives allowing very light storage. Once assembled, they describe the complete surface:

The renderer used for the previous molecular illustrations has been developed to showcase an analytic molecular surface construction method on GPU targeting large molecular complex.

Since my last post with a protein render seems to have found an audience, here is a video displaying another large system

C’est la Surface Exclue au Solvant, elle a plusieurs propriétés intéressantes !
Voici des rendues d’autres structures :

*Introduction post*
I’m a French researcher in computer graphics with a strong interest for pretty pictures and fast computation.
During my PhD, I worked for the illustration of large molecular systems (an example of which is attached, performed with a custom renderer) and Voronoï diagrams.