[Chimera-users] Color surface along an axis

[Yanhe Zhao]

Hi Elaine,
Thanks for the quick reply, it helps a lot.
How can I show the coordinate axis and know the xyz of one exact position
which maybe used as my origin for coloring gradient.
Thanks again for your help,
Yanhe

On Wed, May 19, 2021, 9:08 PM Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

> Hi Yanhe,
> In Surface Color you would choose coloring by "height"  which actually
> means by distance from a plane along its normal; the plane can be in any
> orientation.  You would just need to enter origin and axis values to define
> the plane.  The default values of these are set to color along map Z (axis
> 0 0 1).  To color along X instead, change axis to 1 0 0 .
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
>
> > On May 19, 2021, at 6:49 PM, Yanhe Zhao <yanhezhao1990 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying Tools...Volume Data...Surface Color, have not figured out the
> one I wanted.
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> > Thanks and cheers,
> > Yanhe
> >
> >> On May 19, 2021, at 6:42 PM, Yanhe Zhao <yanhezhao1990 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Elaine,
> >>
> >> Sorry for my delay as I was trying the ways you described above. Thanks
> a lot for that.
> >> I have another question as below:
> >> How can I have color gradient along the map dimensions? For example
> along X.
> >>
> >> Thanks and best,
> >> Yanhe
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