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#330 closed enhancement (duplicate)
Display helices as curved tubes
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Conrad Huang | |
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Description
Begin forwarded message:
From: Oliver Clarke <>
Subject: Re: ChimeraX suggestion - forward/back depth cueing ramps
Date: May 26, 2016 at 11:50:48 AM PDT
To: Tom Goddard
Also, I still think curved helices (e.g. as in Cuemol - http://www.cuemol.org/en/index.php?Gallery - but perhaps they could be implemented better) would be a great addition to ChimeraX as a different representation style - helical ribbons themselves add visual clutter to structures of large molecules, and pipes-and-planks is a bit too crude for such figures. Possibly the attached paper might be useful at some point for implementing curved helices in a way that is more simplified than a simple sliding window approach, but with a little more fidelity to the underlying structure than a series of rigid cylinders? Anyway, as usual take or leave, just a thought.
Cheers,
Oli.
duplicate of #283, I will copy the comment to that one