at 2.43p EDT on 2003 December 12 Friday Jan Reichert said: > > >>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. > >> > should the fit better be done from the second to the before last residue? > > > >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. > > > > > you could have two helix structures perpendicular to each other > http://www.imb-jena.de/cgi-bin/SCOPlnk.exe?CHIME=y&JMOL=1kyz > px73317 > the jmol link on this page crashes Safari 1 (OS X 10.3.1).
Chime represents the two helices as one continuous helix, by the way. and it looks awful. > >2. add a rope from the last CA in cartoon 1 to the first CA in cartoon 2. > > > > > no to better distinguish from loops a strait line from structure element > representation n to structure element n+1 > okay, I like the idea of a straight line better. maybe something porportional to the width of the cartoon helix? 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
