Re: [PyMOL] customized "sleek looking" isomesh

[DeLano S. <de...@de...>]

Hasan,

The "mesh_width" setting controls the thickness of the mesh in pixel units,
or you can override that with "mesh_radius" to control the absolute mesh
cylinder radius in Angstroms.

set mesh_width, 0.5
ray

set mesh_radius, 0.02
ray

Note that the size of the window determines the size of a pixel (even if you
render at a much higher resolution) -- PyMOL attempts to deliver WYSIWYG at
displayed resolution.  That may explain why you were getting a thicker mesh
than you wanted.

map_double map-name

can be used to double the sampling density of an existing map. 

Cheers,
DeLano Scientific LLC
 
PS.  As for:

> There is no documentation about customizing the isomesh of the 
> electron density maps.

That is not entirely true -- but only current project sponsors have access
to all available PyMOL documentation.   I believe you are a member of a
sponsoring lab, so please see
http://delsci.info/dsc/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=command:isomesh and
http://delsci.info/dsc/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=setting:mesh after logging into
http://delsci.info/dsc 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pym...@li...
> [mailto:pym...@li...] On Behalf Of 
> Demirci, Hasan
> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 6:19 AM
> To: pym...@li...
> Subject: [PyMOL] customized "sleek looking" isomesh
> 
> Hi everyone,
> There is no documentation about customizing the isomesh of the 
> electron density maps.
> The ones that I generated are really thick and I have to say ugly.
> Is there any way to change isomesh thickness and make it look more 
> sleek?
> By the way someone posted something like increasing the isomesh 
> density by playing with fft infrequently used options but i couldn't 
> manage to make it work.
> thanks
>  
> Hasan Demirci
> Department of Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology & Biochemistry Brown 
> University
> 69 Brown Street
> Providence, RI    02912
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