Opened 10 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#297 closed enhancement

RFE: add cartoon (ribbon) presets — at Version 1

Reported by: Elaine Meng Owned by: Conrad Huang
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: Graphics Version:
Keywords: Cc: Tom Goddard, Eric Pettersen, Greg Couch
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Project: ChimeraX

Description (last modified by Elaine Meng)

Would be nice to some cartoon style presets.

Some possibilities for basic presets:
(1)default (everything default)
(2)licorice (could be named something else) with a round cross-section throughout, kind of like the coil in the default representation, but probably with a larger radius. Something like what is currently achieved with:
cartoon style arrows f wid 1 thick 1 x round
(3)helix tubes, increased sides (car style modeh tube sides 18)

I was thinking in analogy to the convenient "lighting" command presets, although unlike lighting, "cartoon" can also take an atomspec. Syntax could be similar to lighting presets, or maybe we'd need a separate cartoon subcommand "cartoon preset" ...

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Elaine Meng, 9 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Summary: RFE: add "tube" cartoon (ribbon) style or preset → RFE: add cartoon (ribbon) presets

I changed the title because this "tube" suggestion was different than the tube helices. It would have been a preset for an overall tube like Chimera1 licorice. It would still be a useful preset, but should be called something else if we continue to use "tube" to mean the bendy-cylinder helix representation. The main point is eventually it would be nice to have presets and eventually user-defined cartoon styles, i.e. named sets of custom cartoon style settings.

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