Re: : [PyMOL] Surface Vertex Coordinates

[Laurence P. <Lau...@ic...>]

The Povray intermediate file generated when you do 'ray renderer = 1'  
contains all vertices, normals and colouring information for cartoon  
and surface object types. However you do need to produce a parsing  
script to extract these in to a useful form for importing into other  
programs. Have a look at the front cover of Mol Cell vol 20(4) - I  
generated a cartoon of the protein in PyMol, output it as a povray  
file, and then converted it to VRML using a jiffy produced by Chris  
Richardson, and then used it as an object in the Blender 3D modelling   
package to generate the picture.

Of course it would be a whole lot easier if PyMol output VRML directly   
..... Warren ?????

Laurence Pearl


On 15 Mar 2006, at 17:01, Benjamin Hitz wrote:

>>
>> I am interested in the coordinates of the vertices of the mesh
>> representation of the molecular surface. Is there any method to read
>> them out?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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> Me too.  With coloring and/or other "property" information as well.
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