[Chimera-users] Movie for various clipping

[Elaine Meng]

Dear Hyeong-Tae,
I'm not the expert  in this area, but will try to list the possibilities that I know about.  Other people may have better ideas when they return from the holiday break.

(a) single plane or slab perpendicular to viewer, front-back motion ("global clipping")
(b) single plane or slab per model, at any angle to viewer ("per-model clipping")
… commands and more details here ...
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/clipping.html>

( c) moving orthogonal planes through the data, for example the "Herpes virus slices" movie about halfway down the Animation Gallery page.  Example command file is linked there.
 <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/animations/animations.html>

(d) showing the volume values with coloring on a surface, where that surface can grow/shrink,  for example the movie at the very bottom of the Animation Gallery, "Rice Dwarf Virus".
 <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/animations/animations.html>
Certain shapes of surfaces (sphere, icosahedron, etc.) can be created with the "shape" command, and the surfaces can be colored by volume data value with the "scolor" command.   I don't think there is a shape command option to automatically replace a previous shape, so it may be a bit tedious to create new surface, close old surface, color new surface (repeat).  It was probably done with python rather than commands, but that is beyond my skills, sorry.
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/shape.html>
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/scolor.html>

Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. 
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

On Dec 26, 2013, at 3:10 PM, "Hyeong-Tae Jou" <htjou at kiost.ac> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to animate some clipping motion in volume data.
> I only find very simple clipping method using plane.
> 
> I'd like to make a movie for clipping motion using prism or 3-D box
> (the clipping gear gradually moving deeper into volume data).
> 
> I have tried mask (by inverse masking) using 3-D box,
> but it was very inconvenient, and took too much time to make a movie.
> Are there any other way to make an animation for some fancy clipping?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Hyeong-Tae
> -----------------
> Hyeong-Tae Jou
> KIOST