[Chimera-users] Morphing with pipes and planks

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Corey,

  Pipes and planks depictions don’t update when the molecule changes shape.  It is also slow to compute so it wouldn’t work interactively.  But if you want to make a movie it can be done with some trickery.  The tricky part is that there is no command to make the pipes and planks depiction.  But a few lines of Python (file updatepp.py attached) can update the pipes and planks.  So after creating the morph and the initial pipes and planks I can record a movie with the following command sequence:

movie record super 3 ; coordset #2 0,100 ; perframe "open /Users/goddard/ucsf/chimera/libs/PipesAndPlanks/updatepp.py" frames 100 ; wait 100 ; movie encode ~/Desktop/planks.mp4

	Tom

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> On Aug 6, 2015, at 2:35 PM, Corey Dambacher wrote:
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Gabe lander suggested I email you regarding morph maps between two models:
> 
> Is there a way to do a morph using pipes and planks? I have a couple of models I would like to morph, and this works very well when in ribbon, but it doesn't seem to work when I have the pipes and planks depiction...
> 
> Thanks for your time and consideration,
> 
> Corey