Hi Tom,

Does what you're trying to do come down to:

alter all, vdw=b/100
show spheres

?


Cheers,

Tsjerk

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Thomas Stout <tst...@exelixis.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi All --
>
> Yes, I know I want to do something silly here, but does anyone know of a
> "jiffy" that will generate anisotropic thermal parameters for an isotropic
> atom?
>
> My end goal is to create a figure showing a ligand as ball-and-stick where
> the spheres are scaled by the B-factor.  Since I'm not dealing with
> ultra-high resolution data, I just have normal isotropic atoms.  I'd like to
> use the new "ellipsoids" functionality in PyMOL, but it requires anisotropic
> atom lines.  Obviously, I could write a python script that would scale the
> vdW radii by some normalization of the B-factor, but I thought I could be
> lazy and use what Warren has already built into PyMOL.....
>
> Thanks!
> -Tom
>
> PS -- I'm thinking of something like the "-iso" feature of rastep in Ethan
> Merritt's Raster3D suite......
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