Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-19 Thread Bob Hanson
U_iso_or_equiv is being read now for the CIF format. This is working in 11.5.30 -- Robert M. Hanson Professor of Chemistry St. Olaf College Northfield, MN http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr If nature does not answer first what we want, it is better to take what answer we get. -- Josiah Wil

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-18 Thread Alan Hewat
Bob Hanson said: >>For such small structures, solid surfaces for Uij, >>like your very attractive isosurfaces, should perhaps not take too long? >> > No, not long. It's done. I woke up this morning with the solution and > worked on it after classes today. I meant the time to draw the surfaces Bob

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-18 Thread Bob Hanson
Alan Hewat wrote: >Great work Bob. Difficult to keep up with you. But your server: >http://www.chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/examples-11/Jmol-11_5.jar >(even when I remove the superfluous "www" :-) seems to have reverted to a >version of 28 slightly earlier than the one I had earlier, and I couldn

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-18 Thread Alan Hewat
Great work Bob. Difficult to keep up with you. But your server: http://www.chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/examples-11/Jmol-11_5.jar (even when I remove the superfluous "www" :-) seems to have reverted to a version of 28 slightly earlier than the one I had earlier, and I couldn't find 29 with the fea

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-17 Thread Bob Hanson
OK, Alan, that's great. I look forward to hearing about your user feedback. Rendering. I think you are going to like this. It is NOT your typical football rendering -- but I will argue that you can get that with other programs, and maybe Jmol should do better. Football dots. Pointilist football

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-17 Thread Alan Hewat
OK, I have this working with ICSD, but how do I display the ellipsoid surface plot? Examples are on: http://icsd.ill.fr/icsd/index.php?action=Search&remarks=AHT There are not many if you only have access to the demo database, and you may have to switch off the polyhedra and bonds. To see very anis

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-17 Thread rgb
On Thu, April 17, 2008 10:46 am, Bob Hanson wrote: > Note that I am defining temperature as > > (U11 + U22 + U33)/3.0 * 100 > > If this is not correct, please let me know. (I can't find where I read > that, and I don't know if I remember it correctly.) > David Watkin prefers: Uequiv = (U1*U2*U3)*

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-17 Thread Bob Hanson
Note that for PDB files, ANISOU parameters cannot be processed without also processing the CELL records. To enable viewing anisotropic displacement parameters for PDB files in Jmol 11.5.28, then, you must load .pdb {1 1 1} # get full unit cell or (this is new) load .pdb {1 1 0} # d

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-17 Thread Bob Hanson
Brian McMahon wrote: >Dear Bob > >At first glance, tested against a number of Acta Cryst. C structures >with relatively large or elongated ellipsoids, this is looking very >nice indeed. > >So far the only issue I have come across is the logic of handling >mixed isotropic/anisotropic refinements; i

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-17 Thread Alan Hewat
Those examples look great Bob. This will be very instructive for inorganic structures, and I have already put it into ICSD. But unfortunately the version I found as listed below was 11.5.27 and not 11.5.28 so "ellipsoids" is not yet recognised (caching problem?). A simple aniso ICSD example among

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-17 Thread Bob Hanson
Alan Hewat wrote: >unfortunately the >version I found as listed below was 11.5.27 and not 11.5.28 > I just notice that and am uploading now. >>http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/examples-11/Jmol-11_5.zip >> >>Bob >> >> >__ >Dr Alan Hewat, Neutron

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-17 Thread Alan Hewat
Those examples look great Bob. This will be very instructive for inorganic structures, and I have already put it into ICSD. But unfortunately the version I found as listed below was 11.5.27 and not 11.5.28 so "ellipsoids" is not yet recognised. A simple aniso ICSD example among others is: http://ic

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-17 Thread Alan Hewat
Those examples look great Bob. This will be very instructive for inorganic structures, and I have already put it into ICSD. But unfortunately the version I found as listed below was 11.5.27 and not 11.5.28 so "ellipsoids" is not recognised :-( A simple aniso example among others is: http://icsd.ill

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-17 Thread Alan Hewat
Those examples look great Bob. This will be very instructive for inorganic structures, and I have already put it into ICSD. But unfortunately the version I found as listed below was 11.5.27 and not 11.5.28 so "ellipsoids" is not recognised :-( A simple aniso example among others is: http://icsd.ill

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-17 Thread Brian McMahon
Dear Bob At first glance, tested against a number of Acta Cryst. C structures with relatively large or elongated ellipsoids, this is looking very nice indeed. So far the only issue I have come across is the logic of handling mixed isotropic/anisotropic refinements; in the CIF http://scripts.

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-17 Thread Bob Hanson
Alright. Time to test. See http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/examples-11/new.htm http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/examples-11/ellipsoids.jpg http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/examples-11/Jmol-11_5.zip Bob Bob Hanson wrote: >Alan, Thomas, Brian, Rich, others, > >OK, progress. I have

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-16 Thread Bob Hanson
Alan, Thomas, Brian, Rich, others, OK, progress. I have just uploaded code introducing the ELLIPSOID command. All it does at this point is draw the axes. But that's enough to convince me I do have the Uij --> ellipsoid axes conversion correct, and that is no small achievement! The ellipsoid axe

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-16 Thread Alan Hewat
OK, maybe an axial ratio test switch in Jmol would be useful, but as standard I would prefer to see the assigned atom colours used for the ellipsoids. After all, you can actually see elongated ellipsoids even without colouring them differently. And elongated ellipsoids are the most interesting sinc

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-16 Thread Brian McMahon
Bob Just to keep up the flow of ideas on this, the IUCr checkCIF issues "ALERTS" of various levels of severity in diagnosing unrealistic ellipsoids according to the recipe below: PLAT_211 Test for NPD ADP's in main residue(s) This test reports on non-positive definite (i.e. complex and un

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-15 Thread Thomas Stout
Yes, Bob - I believe that is correct! -Tom On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Bob Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you, Thomas. That's very interesting information. I hope that Jmol > can be at the forefront of visualizing whatever is needed in that area. > > Am I correct that the PDB ANIS

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-15 Thread Brian McMahon
Dear Bob I agree entirely with Alan that the "football" style of ellipsoids will be extremely valuable, especially if it can be realised in short order. More ornamental ellipsoids at some stage in the future will still be appreciated, and offer yet more added value. If you want to test your effor

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-15 Thread Bob Hanson
Thank you, Thomas. That's very interesting information. I hope that Jmol can be at the forefront of visualizing whatever is needed in that area. Am I correct that the PDB ANISOU records are coefficients for the equation U11 x^2 + U22 y^2 + U33 z^2 + U12 xy + U13 xz + U23 yz - c = 0 where x,

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-15 Thread Alan Hewat
Bob, if you can render the Uij ellipsoids without drawing the axes for now, that would already be very interesting. Anisotropic thermal ellipsoids are useful because they indicate disorder of some kind, either static or dynamic (or else a problem with the refinement :-) Of particular interest is an

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-15 Thread Bob Hanson
Alan and Brian, At least for starters, here's what I have done: 1) programmed the CIF reader to read Uij data from CIF and mmCIF files 2) added an ISOSURFACE option to display Cartesian Uij' data: isosurface ellipsoid {[U11'],[U22'],[U33'],[U12'],[U13'],[U23']} 3) read Jeffery, Methods in X-R

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-15 Thread Thomas Stout
I too am very supportive of adding this functionality! For macromolecules however, I would like to comment though that the number of "ultra-high-resolution" (sub 1.0-1.4Angstrom) structures is continuing to increase rapidly. This is due to both better crystals and much more powerful synchrotron X

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-15 Thread Alan Hewat
I strongly support Brian's request for drawing anisotropic temperature ellipsoids, and agree with Rich that the full ellipsoid surface should be drawn, with an option for showing axial lengths. Actually, near the end of last year we discussed standards for output of anisotropic temperature factors

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-14 Thread Brian McMahon
Dear Bob > Brian, which of these appeal to you? > > http://skuld.bmsc.washington.edu/raster3d/html/rastep_options.gif > > Can we use PDB format? > > http://nist.rcsb.org/robohelp/files_formats/structures/pdb/coordinate_file_description/anisou.htm > > I see 1AL4 has these codes, so I could star

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-14 Thread Bob Hanson
Brian, which of these appeal to you? http://skuld.bmsc.washington.edu/raster3d/html/rastep_options.gif Can we use PDB format? http://nist.rcsb.org/robohelp/files_formats/structures/pdb/coordinate_file_description/anisou.htm I see 1AL4 has these codes, so I could start with that. What I need is

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-14 Thread Bob Hanson
so, who can help me determine how to interpret file data in this regard? What sample files do we have? Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Mon, April 14, 2008 9:28 am, Bob Hanson wrote: > > >>Brian, I would love to get this into Jmol. I think we can do a fabulous >>job of it, but I need to unde

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-14 Thread rgb
On Mon, April 14, 2008 9:28 am, Bob Hanson wrote: > Brian, I would love to get this into Jmol. I think we can do a fabulous > job of it, but I need to understand how thermal ellipsoids are > designated in common file formats and how one would suggest depicting > them (with the quarter-segment left

Re: [Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-14 Thread Bob Hanson
Brian, I would love to get this into Jmol. I think we can do a fabulous job of it, but I need to understand how thermal ellipsoids are designated in common file formats and how one would suggest depicting them (with the quarter-segment left out?). I did look into this a while back, but the desi

[Jmol-users] Thermal ellipsoid plots?

2008-04-14 Thread Brian McMahon
Probably a frequently-asked question, for which I apologise, but I was wondering whether it is possible in Jmol to implement "thermal ellipsoid plots" in the manner of the crystallographic program ORTEP (i.e. atoms are represented by ellipsoids whose axes are proportional in length to the relevant