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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font face="Arial">Hi Sy,<br>
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          You could trace curves around your object in a few planes to
        define a surface and use that surface to mask the map.  Or you
        could try a watershed segmentation mouse mode.  What works
        depends on characteristics of the actual data.  Videos showing
        these two techniques are on the Chimera web site under video
        tutorials:<br>
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            <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/videodoc/SurfaceMask">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/videodoc/SurfaceMask</a><br>
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            <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/videodoc/segmouse">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/videodoc/segmouse</a><br>
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            <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/videodoc/videodoc.html">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/videodoc/videodoc.html</a><br>
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          Tom<br>
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      Subject: [Chimera-users] how to mask irregular shape in EM density
      map<br>
      From: sy31802<br>
      To: chimera-users <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu"><chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu></a><br>
      Date: 10/24/12 9:12 PM<br>
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        <div><font color="#000000" face="宋体" size="3">Dear all,</font></div>
        <div><font color="#000000" size="3">We want to color our EM
            density map , so we need mask different part of the map in
            order to distinguish them with different colors.
            Unfortunately, the sample is not irregular shape , we could
            not use "shape" to mask volume as usually. Could anyone give
            some suggestion?</font></div>
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        <div><font color="#000000" size="3">We also use Amira for 3D
            rendering. We think the rendering in amira is just the mask,
            so we want solve the problem the mask the irregular shape
            with amira , have anyone done with it?</font></div>
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        <div><font color="#000000" size="3">best regard</font> </div>
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