Todd, Unfortunately that is not a problem PyMOL was designed to solve, and off the top of my head I can't think of any way to bend it around to do this -- you're talking about a different rendering scheme. I think it amounts to the following: trace every sharp edge, and outline every round surface that is tangent to the view. The former could be done with straight OpenGL, but the latter would take a custom shader program.
Plus, ideally you'd want postscript or vector output for this kind of illustration -- not a PyMOL-style raster image. Perhaps Molscript has this capability? http://www.avatar.se I think that's what it was originally written to do, way back before color was invented ; ). If not, then you might try contacting David Goodsell. He's got some fantasic protein illustration software... http://www.scripps.edu/pub/goodsell/ Cheers, Warren > -----Original Message----- > From: pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of > Todd Geders > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 8:02 AM > To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [PyMOL] "Outline" cartoon representation > > Hello all, > > We'd like to render some cartoon representations of protein > structures in a manner similar to the style of Jane > Richardson. Basically white, opaque surfaces (no > reflections) with black outlines at each of the edges. > > Here's a link to give you an idea what we're looking for > (Figure 1b-c): > http://www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/v7/n8/fig_tab/nsb0800_624_F1.html > > Any suggestions on how to do this using PyMOL? > > ~Todd > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere > Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the > breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list > PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users >
