it's just a straight scale from on end to the other. No weighting.

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Eric Martz <[email protected]>wrote:

> By experimentation, I have reached the following tentative
> conclusions regarding the way Jmol maps colors in its
> fixedTemperature and relativeTemperature color schemes:
>
> http://www.proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Temperature_color_schemes
>
> That page has several examples and buttons that allow you (via hover
> reports: touch an atom with the mouse [don't click]) to ascertain
> what temperature value is mapped to white.
>
> 1. I have been unable to deduce how Jmol determines the white value
> for the relative temperature scheme. It is neither the average nor
> the median temperature value. Can someone enlighten me?
>
> 2. Are the conclusions in my first table correct?
>
> 3. Are these points documented somewhere?
>
> 4. From the examples in my second table, comparing resolution to the
> range and average temperature values, it appears to me that
> temperature values or B factors are absolute, rather than relative.
> If so, these values can be meaningfully compared between experiments.
> Are there any crystallographers reading this who care to comment?
>
> Thanks, -Eric
>
>
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