greetings,
at 7.20p EDT on 2004 January 12 Monday Miguel Howard said: > > I've constructed displays of iron phosphates...and if you've noticed > > the Chime/RasMol assignments of Fe and P, you will see that they are > > identical. (So much for elements being closely related w/in a color.) > > So, often I recolored the ambiguous or duplicate colors in script but > > thought that it would be nice to have at least _some_ difference in > > the default values. > > Jmol will either make a slight distinction in colors within the 'cpk' > color scheme, or we will provide an alternate color scheme. > > > Don't know of alternative 'standards' but I've seen a CPK-like color > > scheme used in WebLab Viewer 4.0 that gives at least slight > > difference in shades for the non-CPK atoms, and is preferable to no > > scheme at all. > > > It differs from Chime/RasMol in the CPK extensions that you > > mentioned, but I don't know if that's a big drawback or if anyone > > would really notice! > > Eric has indicated that he would prefer to have the colors the same as > RasMol/Chime ... even with the duplicates ... by default. > > Tim has yet to weigh in. > I would prefer to see Jmol implement a superset of the Chime/RasMol cpk scheme. I'd rather not keep the redundant colors. > > If you think it advisable, I'm willing to pick up the colors in this > > scheme (hard to do off of the attached image because of specular > > color) and send them as a table w/ the RasMol/Chime colors for > > comparison. > > If it isn't too much, trouble, I think that would be quite helpful. > if it helps, the DRuMS site offers all of the colors and their codes, RGB dec and hex: <http://www.molvisions.com/resources/drums.html> regards, :tim -- timothy driscoll molvisions - molecular graphics & visualization <http://www.molvisions.com/> usa:north carolina:wake forest ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
