color absolute temperature

---------------------------- Original Message
---------------------------- Subject: [Jmol-users] Re:
color schemes
From: "Richard Ball" <rgb@ellerbach.com>
Date: Mon, August 9, 2004 15:28
To: "jmol-users" <Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
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On [2004-Aug-08] Miguel <miguel@jmol.org> wrote:
>
> Jaime & one of his colleagues replied off-list
suggesting that we have both relative and absolute
coloring.
>
> Rather than make this a 'setting' and adding more
hidden state to the system, it seems to me that we
would be better off making a new script command.

That'd be fine.
>
> By default, RasMol uses relative values.
>
> Q: Is there another name that we can use? color atoms
absoluteTemperature

color atoms byTempFactorRelative

color atoms byTempFactorValue

??
>
> Q: Should the color scale be red -> blue ? Since we
are talking about 'temperature' I guess that makes
sense. But it seems strange (unfortunate) to me that
both charge & temp are using red/blue.
>

Red is commmonly taken to mean "warning -- these atoms
are the most mobile ("hottest") and their positions may
be unreliable" whereas as blue, denotes "cold" and
therefor not very mobile.

Rich