<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Apr 28, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Thiruvarangan Ramaraj wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Hi Eric,<br><br>I have a question regarding the colouring by element option.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>If I select a surface and I go to colour and choose by element, does it colour in any order, if so what is the order, how do i find out what element is given what colour.<br><br>Thanks for your time<br><br>Thiru</span></blockquote><br></div><div>Hi Thiru,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I'm not sure what you mean by "does it colour in any order", but the colors assigned to each element are described here: <br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/UsersGuide/colortables.html#byelement">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/UsersGuide/colortables.html#byelement</a></div><div><br></div><div>and how you can change them is described here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/UsersGuide/midas/colordef.html">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/UsersGuide/midas/colordef.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> Eric Pettersen</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> <a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></div></div></div><br><div></div></div></body></html>