at 1.07p EDT on 2003 December 12 Friday Miguel Howard said: > Jan, > > >>And the two cylinders/helices do not join because each of them is in an > >> idealized position. > >> > > they should end and start on the same point of the spline, no rope is > > needed, > > I do not agree. > > The axis of the cylinders should be fit to all of the atoms that > participate in the helix. > > We should not just draw the cylinder from the first residue spline point > to the last residue spline point. This would put the cylinder out of > position. Particularly since the two ends of the helix are almost always > out of alignment with the rest of the helix. > > Let me know what you think. > if I can jump in:
1. modify the cartoon calculation - if the cartoon being drawn is immediately adjacent to another, draw both as a single object. 2. add a rope from the last CA in cartoon 1 to the first CA in cartoon 2. is there a specific pdb file that shows this problem? regards, :tim -- timothy driscoll molvisions - molecular graphics & visualization <http://www.molvisions.com/> usa:north carolina:wake forest ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
