Hi Joel,

  I don't think surface curvature will be helpful understand the differences between two EM maps.  But I was curious what it would look like.  So here's a Python script and an image on a simulated map at 15 Angstroms.  You use the script by opening your map, selecting the surface (ctrl-click on it), then open the curvature.py script (menu File / Open…).  Here's a description of the method it uses from the comments at the top of the curvature.py file.

# Color selected surface pieces by mean curvature.
#
# Gray at the average curvature value over the surface, and blue and red
# at +/- 3 standard deviations of curvature values across the surface.
#
# The curvature is estimated from the vertices and normals of the triangulated
# surface in simple way which will show artifacts from non-isotropic meshes.
# For each triangle edge it computes the normal vector rotation from one vertex
# to the other divided by the edge length.  The vertex mean curvature is the
# mean of the curvatures computed for each edge.
#

And the steps to make the example image

open 1grl
molmap #0 15 grid 2 model #1
select #1
open ~/Desktop/curvature.py

  Tom