If the surface is described as a set of polygons, you might be able to convert your file into a BILD format file and open that in Chimera. For more information, see the ".polygon" description in http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/bild.html. Conrad Elaine Meng wrote:

Hi Kyaw, The only ways I can think of are:

- create a VRML file describing a surface with those points, read into Chimera - write a Python script to be opened in Chimera that reads in the numbers and generates a Chimera surface model

However, I do not know the details about how to do either of these things. Others, feel free to chime in! Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng@cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html

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Hi Dr. Meng,

I am sorry for my vague question.

I have a table of numbers in a text file and I'd like to read in those numbers and convert them into cartesian coordinates so that they can be displayed as a surface in Chimera.

If you could give me some suggestions on how to do it, I'd really appreciate it.

Thank you, Kyaw

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