[Chimera-users] Matching RGB color code from Adobe Illustrator

[Ajith Harish]

Hi Elaine,

Thank you for the explanation. I currently have version 1.4.1 build 20308. I got it just a few weeks ago and didn't expect a newer version would be available. Great! 

Thanks for developing Chimera, its great and easy to use. Although this is not the right forum, if you don't mind I would like to make a suggestion. For the ribbons representation of nucleic acids, I have been using RIBBONS, its rendering is really pleasing. Chimera's rendering is close but it would be great if it possible to match that of ribbons.

Thanks again.

Best wishes,
Ajith

On Mar 30, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Elaine Meng wrote:

> Hello Ajith,
> You would just divide by 255 to get the equivalent value in the 0-1 range.  If you are using Chimera 1.5 (daily builds), the Color Editor will do the conversion for you:  if you type in a value greater than 1 but no greater than 255 for a color component and press return, it will automatically be divided by 255:
> <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/colortool.html>
> 
> The Color Editor is opened by clicking any of the square color wells that appear in several Chimera dialogs, and is also listed in the menu under Tools... Utilities.
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
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> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
> 
> On Mar 30, 2010, at 3:20 AM, Ajith Harish wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> I would like to color different regions of a molecule corresponding to RGB colors from Adobe Illustrator. Chimera RGB ranges from 0.000 to 1.000 where as the Illustrator RGB ranges from 0 to 255. Could you please let me know how these two scales are related?
>> Thank you very much,
>> Ajith
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