Re: [Jmol-developers] OpenBabel color scheme

[timothy d. <mol...@ma...>]

at 8.09a EDT on 2004 January 16 Friday PHILLIP W BARAK said:

> [various parties in the discussions at various times said:]
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> > > using different codes for element colors isn't going to 'break'
> > > existing scripts.
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> > Here is what I was thinking ... someone who used the default colors
> > but then had a 'color key' in HTML.
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> For the benefit of this discussion: the Virtual Museum of Minerals and
> Molecules probably includes 25 or so different atomic elements (C, H,
> N, O, S, and P, among them) and provides a color key in a 'element kay'
> frame ...meaning that we are probably as interested in the issues of
> any change of element colors on existing sites as anyone.
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> Rather than hard-code the element colors into the <FONT COLOR =3D"..> in
> each of the 'element key' frames of each display for its unique
> combination of elements, we chose back then (1998?) simply to use the
> attribute ID=3D"(atomicsymbol)" in the html code for each element in the
> key, and reference all the element key frames to a single cascading
> style sheet that gives the desired properties, such as: #C { color:
> #C8C8C8; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;} We have our desired
> colors for all natural elements that may appear in a single element key
> frame (and they currently follow the Chime/Rasmol standard). We could
> change the appearance of the colors in the element frames throughout
> the site by simply rewriting that single css file w/ new preferences
> for a different color scheme.
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I organize my resources in a similar fashion, which is why the thought of
tweaking a color scheme for html is not a big issue for me.  OTOH if you ha=
ve
hundreds of font tags peppered throughout your docs, I can see headaches.


> So changing to a new set of preferences is no problem for us. (Now, if
> Jmol were to toggle _among_ color schemes, then I'm not quite sure how
> the selection of proper stylesheet would keep up.)
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if one could call a javascript method from within a Jmol script, it could b=
e
used to update dynamic page elements like color scheme.  I have already
mentioned this feature to Miguel.


> > But even in this case the colors won't match exactly because of the
> > shading.
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> Have to 'average' the visual impact of highlight and shade to get a
> single value, right?
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and specular, too - right? =20


:tim

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timothy driscoll
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