[chimera-dev] Extension to export VTK format files

[Shawn Waldon]

Hi Tom,

I don't know exactly how high quality it is.  I haven't found any bugs in
my latest version, but that doesn't mean they aren't there.  I am fairly
new to python, so there may be some subtleties that I missed.  Also, do you
have coding conventions listed somewhere?  I have looked, but I haven't
found an official list or anything.  I am willing to fix it up a bit before
submitting it if you can point me to a list of things to fix up.

My use case is that I am writing a higher level modeling tool that uses VTK
to do its graphics.  I have been calling Chimera as a subprocess to get a
surface to render (and now other data).  See the project website for more
details: http://www.sketchbio.org

Shawn


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Tom Goddard <goddard at sonic.net> wrote:

> Hi Shawn,
>
>   That is interesting.  We could put it in Chimera if the code is solid.
>  The error reports will come to us so we need high quality code so we have
> time to do more than reply to bug reports.
>
>   What use of molecules in VTK motivated you to write this export code?
>
>     Tom
>
>
> On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Shawn Waldon wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> As part of a project that I am working on, I recently wrote an extension
> for Chimera that exports the scene as a .vtk file which can be read into
> the Visualization Toolkit <http://www.vtk.org> or Paraview<http://www.paraview.org>.
>  It exports atoms (points), bonds (lines) and surfaces along with other
> data associated with them such as the atom and residue names, residue
> number, position along its chain, b-factor, occupancy, etc. in a format
> that can be used in VTK-based applications with the default file readers.
>  I think this could be a good thing to add to Chimera itself, so I was
> wondering if you would like to have the code for the extension to add to
> Chimera itself.
>
> I look forward to hearing from you,
> --
> Shawn Waldon
> Graduate Research Assistant
> Department of Computer Science
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> swaldon at cs.unc.edu
>
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-- 
Shawn Waldon
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
swaldon at cs.unc.edu
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