[Chimera-users] opening image stack

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Chinmaya,
If you are using the Chimera command line, you want Chimera commands, not python.

Here is how to use the "open" command,
<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/open.html>

see the part about local files,
<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/open.html#local>

However, based on our earlier correspondence, I somewhat doubt you have a PNG stack.  Just having multiple PNG files does not mean that they are a stack.  An image stack is generally produced by some instrument (say a microscope) and consists of 2D images that when opened together and slightly displaced from one another along the third dimension, create a single 3D map or object.

<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/volumeviewer/imagestack.html>

Elaine

On Jun 16, 2011, at 4:59 PM, chinmaya joshi wrote:

> Can you help me how I can open a stack of .png images using a command line in chimera.
> I will have a set of images and I want to open the stack in chimera using the command line.
> Is there any python script for this?
> 
> Waiting for replies