[Chimera-users] "add-surface" button

[Andrew Jewett]

    Yeah, the demand for 3-D voxell images may be low at the moment.
But I would still consider adding some kind of "add-surface"
button to volume-viewer when in surface or mesh-mode.  Steve McQuinn
made a very pretty picture of phageT4 using a red colored surface
in the interior, and a green one on the exterior and it is pretty.

(I hope having multiple surfaces doesn't cause end-capping to crash.)

Andrew
I'll try to keep it down to a dull roar for a little while.

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Thomas Goddard wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
>   Those are good user interface ideas.  Along the lines of your
> suggestions, I think providing an initial colormap that has more nodes
> (maybe 3, 4, or 5), and multi-colored (maybe rainbow), would better
> show off the volume rendering capability.  The currrent white cotton
> ball you see by default in solid rendering mode is not very useful.
> 
>   That said, I have yet to see a compelling advantage for the solid
> rendering in molecular structure applications over surface rendering.
> It is true that 3D medical image scans often are shown with volume
> rendering, but that data has different characteristics.
> 
>   Since I have no examples where the solid rendering has proved very
> effective, enhancing it has low priority.
> 
>   Still I will keep your color map user interface suggestions in mind
> with the new surface colormapping tool (not yet released) that uses the
> same histogram interface.  And we also use that histogram interface with
> the "Render attributes" tool.
> 
>   Thanks for the suggestions,
> 
> 	Tom

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