Re: [ccp4bb] atomic coloring for the color blind

2013-06-01 Thread David Schuller
How about Braille for those who are blind to all colours? -- === All Things Serve the Beam === David J. Schuller

Re: [ccp4bb] atomic coloring for the color blind

2013-06-01 Thread Steven Herron
David, Do you know of a program to make accurate braille representations of an electron density map :) That would be cool. Maybe in the future [See: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/smart-fingertips-virtual-senses/

[ccp4bb] atomic coloring for the color blind

2013-05-31 Thread Phoebe A. Rice
I feel badly that one of my undergrads had trouble telling an O from a C in a pymol homework set because he's color blind. (The assignment involved telling me why the a GTP analog (GDPCP) wasn't hydrolyzed). Is there a handy by-atom coloring scheme I can recommend that works for the red-green

Re: [ccp4bb] atomic coloring for the color blind

2013-05-31 Thread Joel Tyndall
board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Phoebe A. Rice Sent: Friday, 31 May 2013 1:35 p.m. To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] atomic coloring for the color blind I feel badly that one of my undergrads had trouble telling an O from a C in a pymol homework set because he's color

Re: [ccp4bb] atomic coloring for the color blind

2013-05-31 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Friday, May 31, 2013 01:34:51 pm Phoebe A. Rice wrote: I feel badly that one of my undergrads had trouble telling an O from a C in a pymol homework set because he's color blind. (The assignment involved telling me why the a GTP analog (GDPCP) wasn't hydrolyzed). Is there a handy by-atom

Re: [ccp4bb] atomic coloring for the color blind

2013-05-31 Thread Mark van der Woerd
Sent: Fri, May 31, 2013 2:35 pm Subject: [ccp4bb] atomic coloring for the color blind I feel badly that one of my undergrads had trouble telling an O from a C in a pymol homework set because he's color blind. (The assignment involved telling me why the a GTP analog (GDPCP) wasn't hydrolyzed

Re: [ccp4bb] atomic coloring for the color blind

2013-05-31 Thread Bryan Lepore
FYI Kevin Cowtan has a web page that discusses using color diagrams with respect to the color blind interpretation. http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/colour/colour.html -Bryan

Re: [ccp4bb] atomic coloring for the color blind

2013-05-31 Thread Jens Kaiser
Phoebe, I'm red green blind myself, and it is not as straight forward as it sounds. The problem is that we see red and green despite lacking one of the color receptors (I actually prepared a figure using red and green once and got a referee comment that red/green blind people would have