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 coloring scheme I can recommend that works for the > red-green color blind?
Phoebe: Here is the "podo" color palette recommended as being distinguishable by both protanopic and deuteranopic color-blind viewers. The down side is that this is is a more stringent restriction than accommodating red/green color defects alone, and makes the colors less distinct for normal-vision viewers %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% # This file is distributed as part of gnuplot. # Palette of colors selected to be easily distinguishable by # color-blind individuals with either protanopia or deuteranopia # Bang Wong [2011] Nature Methods 8, 441. set linetype 1 lc rgb "black" set linetype 2 lc rgb "#e69f00" set linetype 3 lc rgb "#56b4e9" set linetype 4 lc rgb "#009e73" set linetype 5 lc rgb "#f0e442" set linetype 6 lc rgb "#0072b2" set linetype 7 lc rgb "#d55e00" set linetype 8 lc rgb "#cc79a7" set linetype cycle 8 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Translating these colors to atom types is another question, however. Ethan -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742