[Chimera-users] Thermal ellipsoids

[Eric Pettersen]

On Jul 7, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Michael Day wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I see thermal ellipsoid rendering was just enabled. This is another  
> point (in a long list of points) in favor of using  Chimera.

I'm glad you think so!  We think so. ;-)

> Is there a plan to be able to display ellipsoid axis or octants as  
> in ortep type renderings. This would be extremely useful in small  
> molecule work. I've been using Chimera as an alternate when  
> reporting structures in my lab and it has been very well received.  
> The first question asked when I distributed a report today was about  
> the axis and/or octants.

We do plan to add the display of axes and major ellipses as well as a  
probability-level-to-scaling-factor calculator as well as session  
support.  What we've released is functional/useful but not what we  
consider complete at this point.  I'm going to open a feature-request  
ticket in our Trac database for axes/ellipses with you and Thomas  
Mitterfellner (who also requested these) as recipients, so you will  
get mail when it gets implemented.  My guess is it will probably take  
a month or so for me to have the time to implement it.

--Eric

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


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