On May 5, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Elaine Meng wrote:
With Chimera commands, you can create a distance monitor and set its stick thickness, color, etc.: open 1zik alias pair1 #0:22.a@oe2:25@ne dist pair1 setattr p drawMode 1 pair1 setattr p radius .05 pair1 setattr p color hot pink pair1 setattr p label " " pair1
However, it sounds like python will be necessary to conditionally set radius or color depending on the value of the distance.
A little more info on this possibility. You can get the distance- monitor pseudobond group in Chimera with: from StructureMeasure.DistMonitor import distanceMonitor and run through the distance-monitor pseudobonds with: for pb in distanceMonitor.pseudoBonds: ...do something that sets pb.radius based on pb.length()... --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu