Opened 9 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

Last modified 8 years ago

#585 closed enhancement (fixed)

RFE: add cartoon-style helix tube radius option

Reported by: Elaine Meng Owned by: Conrad Huang
Priority: major Milestone: Alpha2
Component: Depiction Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Notify when closed: mcm35@cam.ac.uk Platform: all
Project: ChimeraX

Description

I recommend adding an option to “cartoon style” to allow specifying a constant radius for tubes (per-model). Sometimes the varying radii don’t look that good, and sometimes some look obviously too fat (1gmk chain C) or too thin (3e86 short C-term helices). I anticipate users will want to be able to control tube radius, and this would afford control as well as allow making them all the same.

Maybe the option could be:

radius [ auto | value ]

… or tubeRadius instead of radius if you prefer, would require more typing though
… or default instead of auto if you prefer, meaning the current method (the average distance from CA to tube midline, right?)

It would be a per-model attribute that only affected the helix tube mode.

Change History (6)

comment:1 by Elaine Meng, 9 years ago

Type: defectenhancement

comment:2 by Elaine Meng, 9 years ago

Also need a way to make the radius persist over different frames of a trajectory, if possible (see #588 for example data).

comment:3 by Elaine Meng, 9 years ago

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comment:4 by Conrad Huang, 9 years ago

Component: UnassignedDepiction
Milestone: Alpha2

comment:5 by Conrad Huang, 8 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Implemented in eff7774.

comment:6 by Elaine Meng, 8 years ago

Another thought is should "auto" be the maximum distance rather than the average, to avoid floaters?

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