Hi David,
I guess my question is how important is fancy5 and fancy6?  Those will be the hard ones for me to do.  Keep in mind that "display of ... major ellipses" will look like fancy3 except that you will be able to see the arcs of the major ellipses without using a transparent ellipsoid.  The other "fancy modes" are not difficult to do.

--Eric

                        Eric Pettersen

                        UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

                        http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

On Jul 8, 2009, at 8:29 AM, David Chenoweth wrote:

Eric and Elaine,

The display of axes and major ellipses as well as a probability-level-to-scaling-factor calculator will be a great addition to Chimera and I think more small molecule people and Organic chemists will start to use the program. I'm really excited about this feature being added to Chimera and I wanted to pass along some ideas for displaying the axes as well as octants. The program RASTEP (Raster3D Thermal Ellipsoid Program) has some very nice rendering features that would be great options to have in chimera. I attached an example below.

Thanks to the Chimera team for working on this feature,
Dave Chenoweth