[chimera-dev] Extension to export VTK format files

[Tom Goddard]

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 or Paraview.  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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