[Chimera-users] icosahedral annulus

[Pranav Shah]

Brilliant! that worked amazingly, well!

Thanks Elaine1
Best,
Pranav
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Pranav Shah
Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

Division of Structural Biology,
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics,
University of Oxford,
Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN,
UK

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 7:28 PM Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Pranav,
> I believe that you can:
>
> (1) use the "shape icosahedron" command to make an icosahedral surface
> <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/shape.html#icosahedron>
>
> (2) then use the "mask" command specifying the map and the surface (icosahedron) that you just made
> <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/mask.html>
>
> The mask command has a "slab" option to include some distance from both sides of the surface.
>
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
>
> > On Nov 16, 2020, at 10:29 AM, Pranav Shah <p.shah.lab at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Elaine,
> > i was wondering if there was an "easy" way to create an icosahedral
> > ring-mask using chimera's shape and mask commands. At the moment, I am
> > creating two icosahedral shapes of big and small radii and them
> > subtracting the small one from the big one, but this results in
> > inconsistent results i.e the mask does not enclose the volume I wish
> > to cover.
> > Best,
> > Pranav
>