On Friday, December 12, 2003, at 03:34 PM, Morgan Ryan wrote:
VRML seems to be a native internal format for (the magnificent) Chimera. Is it possible to export VRML models from Chimera? Or do you worldly folks know of a mechanism for converting msms output into vrml files? Thanks! Morgan Ryan, enthusiastic amateur
Hi Morgan, Although VRML is one of the model types that Chimera supports, we don't convert MSMS output into VRML. It is instead made into its own model type (MSMSModel) so that we can preserve information about the correspondence between surface points and atoms, which would be lost if we had used a VRML model. A Python routine _could_ be written that would convert the MSMSModel information into its VRML equivalent, but before "going there" perhaps you could describe why you want MSMS info in VRML format? There could be a better alternative available than writing the conversion routine. Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab pett@cgl.ucsf.edu http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu