[Chimera-users] Normal Modes, arrows and more...

[Elaine Meng]

Hi JD,
You can create a text file in the BILD format containing descriptions  
of arrows. Simply reading it into Chimera creates the objects. The  
BILD format is quite simple, see:

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/bild.html

For example, the following four lines describe two arrows (I also  
attach this as a separate file for your convenience):
.color red
.arrow 2 1 2 5 0 0
.color cornflower blue
.arrow 0 0 0 1.234 3.066 -8.143 0.5 2.5 0.6

I imagine one could also create the objects directly using a python  
script, but at least to me, this seems easier.  I hope this helps,
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


On May 14, 2007, at 8:30 AM, Jean-Didier Marechal wrote:
>
> I am trying to use chimera to draw arrows of the Normal Modes  
> vectors I
> previously calculated with charmm. I see different possibilities to
> provide chimera with the vectors, but how can I draw the arrows?

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