[chimera-dev] 2-D projection of volume in Chimera

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Jesus,
Sorry, I don't think there is a way, currently.  Here is the most recent information I could find on that topic:

<http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2010-April/005124.html>

Regards,
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

p.s. For future questions, you may want to send to chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu (chimera-dev is mainly for programming questions).  

On Feb 26, 2013, at 5:28 PM, Jesus Montoya wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to project a 3-D volume into a single 2-D image plane in Chimera?
> 
> For example, I want to load a volume twice into Chimera and view the two copies side by side in an identical orientation (manually set by rotating the volumes with the mouse). 
> Then, I want to view one of them as a 2-D projection along the axis that comes out of the screen.
> 
> While a "solid" representation of the volume is similar, it is not exactly what I need...
> 
> Thanks!
>