[Chimera-users] Flattening of coloured icosahedron

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Roman,

  It would take custom code (a few pages of Python running in Chimera) to unfold an icosahedron that is colored according to a density map.  As Elaine said the Chimera flatten icosahedron tool works on quite different input data — protein surfaces covering a capsid.  I wrote that code and don’t think it could easily be adapted easily.

	Tom



> On Aug 24, 2015, at 6:16 AM, R.I.Koning at lumc.nl wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to flatten a coloured icosahedron surface?
> 
> I have an electron density of a virus, and using shape icosahedron and colour icosahedron surface and surface colour I can colour it according to this density. I would really like to generate a flattened icosahedron (compared to the flatten icosahedron command) from the coloured icosahedron surface. In order to get a 2D map of the colours. Is this possible somehow in Chimera? Is it otherwise possible to export the icosahedron with the coloured surfaces and try in another program (like Maya of Cinema4D?).
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Roman Koning
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