[chimerax-users] [Chimera-users] Get rotation between two views?

[vincent Chaptal]

Hi Oliver,

you can use SSM or LSQ superposition, and report the Omega angle (in 
crystallography suites).

best
Vincent

Le 10/05/2022 à 19:08, Oliver Clarke via ChimeraX-users a écrit :
> Thanks Elaine!
>
> Yes, when two views are related by a simple rotation that is what I do too - for more complicated cases it might be useful to have a function to get the view difference between two saved views in terms of rotations around the X,Y,Z axes.
>
> Cheers
> Oli
>
>> On May 10, 2022, at 12:59 PM, Elaine Meng<meng at cgl.ucsf.edu>  wrote:
>>
>> Hi Oliver,
>> Not exactly -- the closest thing I can think of is ChimeraX command "view matrix" but then you'd have to figure it out by comparing the camera matrices given for the two views, if that's even possible.
>>
>> <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/view.html#matrix>
>>
>> When I make figures that differ by N-degree rotation I have to just save one view, then use a command to make that exact rotation, and then save another view before saving the session.
>>
>> 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 10, 2022, at 8:50 AM, Oliver Clarke via Chimera-users<chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> In either Chimera or X, is there a way to obtain the orientational relationship between two views?
>>>
>>> E.g. if I have two views saved, I would like to be able to say "view 1 is related to view 2 by a 45deg rotation about X and a 25deg rotation about Y" - this would be very useful for figure making/writing purposes. Does this exist?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Oli
>
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