Dear PyMOL users, I don't know how many cavers are in this audience, but if you are curious what PyMOL can be used for apart from displaying molecules, have a look at the post below!
Cheers, Thomas -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Rendering 3D Surveys with Pymol Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 18:04:13 +0100 From: Jarvist Moore Frost <jarvist@...> To: survex@... Dear Survex users, I thought you may be interested in a cludge I developed a few weeks ago to go from Survex .3d file to Pymol (a free, python based, 3D molecule viewer heavily used in the computational biology community). Pymol is a very nice tool to make pretty renders, an also has a number of 3D display modes (including anaglyphs, shutter glasses and cross-eye / wall-eye stereo). Code, and a link to a high-def youtube vid of the resulting ray trace movie is available here: http://migovec.posterous.com/cave-survey-survex-rendering-with-pymol As usual, the program started around midnight being as general as possible, then had ever more specific hacks hardcoded in. Never the less, it does colouring by depth on the HSV colour wheel, includes a set of cardinal axes, and estimates survey shot passage dimension based on the shot length. At some point, I'd quite like to add a chequerboard grid, and expose more details of the survey to pymol as attributes so that you can use the nice python tools to do fun things such as take over the colouring (for instance, a rainbow colour scheme based on survey trip?), expose the station labels, perform RMSD fits & distance calculations etc. I also have some python code that generates .svx files for DEM data from a text-based ASCII Tuple format (originally converted from some proprietary geo stats format). I've found that a mixture of grid based DEM data, as well as contour-like (or rather, traces) parallel lines over the mountain range. Drop me an email if you think this may be useful, and I'll package it up. May your surveys rotate in a manner truly sublime, Jarv -- Survex http://lists.survex.com/mailman/listinfo/survex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list ([email protected]) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
