[chimera-dev] Fwd: [Chimera-users] Reading a data set from a text file

[Conrad Huang]

If the surface is described as a set of polygons, you might be able to 
convert your file into a BILD format file and open that in Chimera.  For 
more information, see the ".polygon" description in 
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/bild.html.

Conrad

Elaine Meng wrote:
> Hi Kyaw,
> The only ways I can think of are:
> 
> - create a VRML file describing a surface with those points, read  
> into Chimera
> - write a Python script to be opened in Chimera that reads in the  
> numbers and generates a Chimera surface model
> 
> However, I do not know the details about how to do either of these  
> things. Others, feel free to chime in!
> Elaine
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> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                          meng at cgl.ucsf.edu
> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
>                       http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> Hi Dr. Meng,
>>
>> I am sorry for my vague question.
>>
>> I have a table of numbers in a text file and I'd like to read in  
>> those numbers and convert them into cartesian coordinates so that  
>> they can be displayed as a surface in Chimera.
>>
>> If you could give me some suggestions on how to do it, I'd really  
>> appreciate it.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Kyaw
> 
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