[chimerax-users] Color palettes for planes and solid data?

[Oliver Clarke]

Hi,

Would it be possible to add support for more convenient coloring of solid representation data and planes of density maps? E.g. by specifying a color palette? Apologies if this already exists and I’m just not finding it!

I would like to be able to make nice looking slices of a density map, without surface contours, colored by density value (e.g. attached). This can be a good way of showing disordered regions of a EM reconstruction.

Currently, when a density map is loaded as a plane or solid represntation in Chimera, there is no way to automatically assign a predefined palette, and the defaults do not convey much information (at least for typical EM maps - example attached).

Also, when I attempt another way to do this, coloring the surface by map value and then clipping the surface, the results are odd, unlike in Chimera (see attached at different contours).

Cheers
Oli

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