Hi Hyeong-Tae, I am making a movie now where I show a rectangular indentation in the face of an electron microscopy map, and then the indentation gets gradually deeper tunnelling into the density map. This is for a planetarium movie which has a very wide field of view so I fly the view point into this rectangular tunnel so you can see the data on all sides. Making the rectangular indentation is not easy -- I use 9 copies of the same density map, one for each rectangular face of the indentation (5 faces) and 4 rectangular strips to show a hole in the front face of the original map. Then I move these faces with the volume planes command. I'm not sure if the above example is what you have in mind. Chimera does not have exotic clipping methods -- just planes. You can use box display mode to show 6 faces of a box within a density map using the Orthoplanes feature (volume dialog menu Features / Orthogonal planes). http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/volumeviewer/volume... Tom On Dec 26, 2013, at 3:10 PM, "Hyeong-Tae Jou" wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to animate some clipping motion in volume data. I only find very simple clipping method using plane.
I'd like to make a movie for clipping motion using prism or 3-D box (the clipping gear gradually moving deeper into volume data).
I have tried mask (by inverse masking) using 3-D box, but it was very inconvenient, and took too much time to make a movie. Are there any other way to make an animation for some fancy clipping?
Many thanks,
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