Dear Tsjerk thanks for that - I am not using the latest pymol so I will upgrade and try again. I will let you know how it goes. cheers Martyn
On Wed, 11 May 2005, T.A.Wassenaar wrote: > Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 13:11:54 +0200 > From: T.A.Wassenaar <t.a.wassen...@rug.nl> > To: Martyn Symmons <mar...@cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk> > Cc: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [PyMOL] cgo cylinders with flat ends? More details > > > Hi Martin, > > For me (Suse 9.0 Linux, Pymol 0.98b) this scripts seems to > do exactly what you want. After rendering that is. If the > scene is not rendered, the cylinder is an eight-sided > prism, which is due to the openGL implementation. Maybe it > would be nice if there would be a setting like cgo_quality > to enhance such a view without rendering. > > But does your problem persist after rendering, and if so, > could you show an image illustrating that? Though I have > to add that I won't be the one to help from that point on, > as it'll be in the implementation. > > Cheers, > > Tsjerk > > On Wed, 11 May 2005 11:45:36 +0100 > Martyn Symmons <mar...@cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > Dear Tsjerk and other pymolites > > > > To draw my cylinders I just modified Warren's example > >from the CGO > > demos in the examples/devel directory. I give this > >below. Maybe there is > > another way to do this? I would like cylindrical > >cylinders with sharp cut > > ends rather than rounded ends. I guess this is down to > >OPENGL not to > > pymol. > > > > I have another program that looks at the RNA atomic > >coordinate file and > > writes in the coordinates of the double-helical regions > >of the RNA. > > (currently this is based on a user going through the > >secondary structure > > by hand - I discussed with Luca Jovine a little about > >whether it could be > > done automatically but he has not time just now to spend > >on this). > > > > So below is an example of Warren's code after I hack in > >my coordinates, > > > > You get it into pymol by using the 'run' command. > > > > Thanks for any help with this. > > Best wishes and regards > > Martyn > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > # this is a trivial example of creating a cgo object > >consisting of a > > # a single state > > > > # first we create a list of floats containing a GL > >rendering stream > > # obj is an empty list to begin with... > > obj = [] > > > > obj.extend( [ CYLINDER, > > 13.839,-33.646,20.164,24.5685,-15.6645,16.6015, #hacked > >in from coords > > 10.0, > > # Radius > > 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, # RGB Color 1 > > 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, # RGB Color > >2 > > ] ) > > # then we load it into PyMOL > > > > cmd.load_cgo(obj,'cgo013') > > > > # move the read clipping plane back a bit to that that > >is it brighter > > > > cmd.clip('far',-5) > > > > On Tue, 10 May 2005, T.A.Wassenaar wrote: > > > >> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 21:37:33 +0200 > >> From: T.A.Wassenaar <t.a.wassen...@rug.nl> > >> To: Martyn Symmons <mar...@cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk> > >> Subject: Re: [PyMOL] cgo cylinders with flat ends? > >> > >> > >> Hi Martyn, > >> > >> It sounds like you used the SAUSAGE keyword rather than > >> the CYLINDER keyword, the latter of which is a true > >> cylinder. But if this line of deduction is wrong, please > >> show what you tried and the result it gave. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Tsjerk > >> > >> On Tue, 10 May 2005 18:22:10 +0100 > >> Martyn Symmons <mar...@cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > >> > dear pymol-users > >> > I have used CGO to put down 20 > >> >angstrom-wide cylinders on > >> > the helical bits of a large RNA molecule. They come > >>out > >> >with nice rounded > >> > ends but I would prefer flattened ends if possible. Is > >> >there any way I can > >> > do that? > >> > Thanks for any help/advice. > >> > cheerio for now, > >> > Martyn > >> > Martyn F. Symmons (Ph.D.) > >> > Research Associate > >> > Crystallography and Biocomputing Group > >> > Department of Biochemistry > >> > University of Cambridge > >> > Phone: 01223 766020 > >> > ----------------------- > >> > "Abair ach beagan agus abair gu math e" > >> > Seanfhacal Gaidhlig (Gaelic Proverb). > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >>------------------------------------------------------- > >> > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space > >> >Sweepstakes > >> > Want to be the first software developer in space? > >> > Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! > >> > > >>http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > PyMOL-users mailing list > >> > PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> > > >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users > >> > >> > > > > Martyn F. Symmons (Ph.D.) > > Research Associate > > Crystallography and Biocomputing Group > > Department of Biochemistry > > University of Cambridge > > Phone: 01223 766020 > > ----------------------- > > "Abair ach beagan agus abair gu math e" > > Seanfhacal Gaidhlig (Gaelic Proverb). > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space > >Sweepstakes > > Want to be the first software developer in space? > > Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > > PyMOL-users mailing list > > PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users > Martyn F. Symmons (Ph.D.) Research Associate Crystallography and Biocomputing Group Department of Biochemistry University of Cambridge Phone: 01223 766020 ----------------------- "Abair ach beagan agus abair gu math e" Seanfhacal Gaidhlig (Gaelic Proverb).