[chimerax-users] artistic cartoon visualisations

[Elaine Meng]

There isn't any option to make the arrowheads longer.  However, you can make them narrower with the "arrowScale" option of "cartoon style."

Also, the default cross-section of strands is rectangular but you can change it to oval with the "xsection" option of "cartoon style."

See "cartoon style" help:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/cartoon.html#style>

Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Jan 25, 2022, at 1:37 AM, Enrico Martinez via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear ChimeraX users!
> I am working on the improvement of the cartoon visualizations. Here
> are some options that I have found very cool:
> preset 'overall look' publication
> cartoon style coil thickness 0.22
> set silhouettes t; set silhouetteColor firebrick; set silhouetteDepthJump 0.02
> 
> could you please suggest me something, which may further develop these
> ideas?  In particularly I would like to improve representations of the
> beta-sheets making the arrow-ends more elongated and cylindrical
> Many thanks in advance
> Enrico