[Chimera-users] color by element

[Eric Pettersen]

On Apr 28, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Thiruvarangan Ramaraj wrote:

> Hi Eric,
>
> I have a question regarding the colouring by element option.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> Thiru

Hi Thiru,
	I'm not sure what you mean by "does it colour in any order", but the  
colors assigned to each element are described here:

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/UsersGuide/colortables.html#byelement

and how you can change them is described here:

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/UsersGuide/midas/colordef.html

--Eric

                         Eric Pettersen
                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

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