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Thanks, Tom. Very useful indeed. <br>
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I will go through these.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
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Paul<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/02/2016 18:50, Tom Goddard wrote:<br>
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<div class=""> I suggested adding the path to sys.path in your
Chimera start-up so that you wouldn’t have to modify the system
Python.</div>
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<div class=""> Here is a Python example of computing a
triangulation for the part of a plane inside a closed surface,
using as an example an icosahedron for the closed surface. You
can just use File / Open… in Chimera to run it and it will
report in the Reply Log (menu Favorites)</div>
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icosahedron, clip plane has 10 triangles</div>
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<div class="">More Python code examples are on the Chimera Python
scripts web page:</div>
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<div class=""> The Chimera programming documentation is scant.
To figure out how to write the attached example code I looked
at my Chimera distribution at file</div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/SurfaceCap/surfcaps.py</div>
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<div class="">at the calculate_cap() routine. All of the Chimera
Python modules are in the above “share” directory — it is useful
to poke around in there to figure out how things work, although
it can be hard to find what you want.</div>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class=""> Thank you
very much, Tom.<br class="">
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I found the folder and added a file 'chimera.pth' to
system Python site-packages with the path to Chimera's
site-packages, which also did the same thing.<br
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The whole point for me doing this was to try and take
advantage of Chimera's functionality. I would like to
slice closed 3D volumes. I've looked through the online
documentation but have not had success. Could you please
point me in the right direction on how to achieve this?<br
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My input will be <b class="">vertices and polygons</b>
together with a slicing plane and my expected output is
the <b class="">contents of the plane as an 'image'</b><b
class=""> or set or polygons</b>.<br class="">
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Many thanks.<br class="">
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Paul<br class="">
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<div class=""> The error means that you have two
different colorbrewer Python modules and Chimera is
getting the one that didn’t come with Chimera. I
see the Chimera colorbrewer.py file in</div>
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<div class="">But I’m guessing you have the following
colorbrewer module which is completely different
from the Chimera one installed with your system
Python</div>
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<div class="">In order for Chimera modules to work
from the system Python it will be necessary that
Chimera finds its own Python modules. So you should
put the above Chimera site-packages directory in
front of Python system locations in the Python
search path sys.path. I would put this in your
script that starts Chimera using the system Python,
something like</div>
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<div class="">import sys</div>
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'/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/site-packages’)</div>
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Kibet Korir wrote:</div>
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Hi,<br class="">
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I want to use the chimera API and I've
managed to configure a successful import of
chimera except that I get that colorbrewer
is not installed. <br class="">
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>>> import chimera<br class="">
Traceback (most recent call last):<br
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File "<stdin>", line 1, in
<module><br class="">
File
"/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/chimera/__init__.py",
line 73, in <module><br class="">
import palettes<br class="">
File
"/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/chimera/palettes.py",
line 103, in <module><br class="">
_initPresets()<br class="">
File
"/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/chimera/palettes.py",
line 95, in _initPresets<br class="">
from colorbrewer import ColorBrewer<br
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ImportError: cannot import name ColorBrewer<br
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What is the right way to go about this? (I
could create a symbolic link to my system
colorbrewer, but that doesn't seem clean).<br
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