It seems to me that is what the standard SLAB command is for. Right?
If you use
slab on
slab 60 # or whatever
set slabByAtom
it might be very close to what you are talking about.
Bob
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Alexander Rose
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> I set up a web page to clarify what I mean:
> http://weirdbyte.de/jmol-test/html/nav.html
>
> There are three applet, showing a protein in the same orientation. The
> first applet shows the protein in the normal - non navigation - mode and has
> some atom obscuring most of the rest. The second applet is in navigation
> mode and has the default visualRange = 5 setting. According to the
> documentation this results in "any object in a plane that is less than 5.0
> Angstroms across will be clipped automatically". And it works, giving a
> beautiful clear view, this is what I would like for the non navigation mode,
> too!. Applet 3 then is also in navigation mode but with visualRange set to 1
> so that the notorious atom is not clipped automatically and obscures the
> view again, the reflection is nice though. I hope this makes my intention
> clear.
>
>
> Best
> Alexander
>
>
> ps: congrats for your jmol related publication!
>
> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> > Von: "Robert Hanson" <[email protected]>
> > An: [email protected]
> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. August 2010 15:58:20
> > Betreff: Re: [Jmol-users] camera dependent slab setting
> > I thought that was what you meant -- the equivalent of visualRange but
> > for standard mode.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Alexander Rose <
> > [email protected] > wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried rotationRadius, but it has not the effect visualRange has. In
> > fact I do not really understand the effect, apart from somehow setting
> > the zoom and the possible zoom range. That is with 12.0.8.
> >
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> > ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> > > Von: "Robert Hanson" < [email protected] >
> > > An: [email protected]
> > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. August 2010 22:24:17
> >
> > > Betreff: Re: [Jmol-users] camera dependent slab setting
> >
> >
> >
> > > Indeed!
> > >
> > > set rotationRadius (Angstroms)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Sets the nominal rotation radius for the model effectively setting
> > > the
> > > size of the model at zoom 100 . Normally set to the radius that will
> > > contain within the screen the entire model when rotated relative to
> > > the default rotation center.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > :)
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Alexander Rose <
> > > [email protected] > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Because its such a different experience I came to think that
> > > something
> > > like visualRange would be useful for the non nav mode?!
> > >
> > >
> > > Best
> > > Alexander
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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