
Dear all, I would like to create a morph movie between two volumes in ChimeraX, however I am having difficulties with generating it. I am using the following command (e.g.) to "create" the morph: volume morph #1,2 frames 50 After it has completed I get a new volume but I can't review the frames themselves, i.e. the output is a new map. I tried scouring the tutorials and command page but can't find a solution. I tried it with the ChimeraX Ubuntu 16.04 distribution as well as the generic linux version. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best wishes, Karim ############################################## Karim Rafie; PhD, AMRSC Postdoctoral Research Fellow Carlson Lab Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Umeå University Umeå / Sweden

Hi Karim, Yes the morph is added as a new model. The command both creates the morph and plays it. However, the default is only 25 frames (playstep 0.04 frames 25) and may finish playing very quickly, so maybe you didn’t notice it. For example, commands open emdb:1283 open emdb:1284 volume morph #1,2 …create #3 as the morph and quickly show it. Could try more frames if you want it to take longer: close #3; vol all show volume morph #1,2 playstep 0.01 frames 100 See description of command options: <http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/volume.html#morph> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Jan 28, 2020, at 10:06 AM, Karim Rafie <karim.rafie@umu.se> wrote:
Dear all, I would like to create a morph movie between two volumes in ChimeraX, however I am having difficulties with generating it. I am using the following command (e.g.) to "create" the morph:
volume morph #1,2 frames 50
After it has completed I get a new volume but I can't review the frames themselves, i.e. the output is a new map. I tried scouring the tutorials and command page but can't find a solution.
I tried it with the ChimeraX Ubuntu 16.04 distribution as well as the generic linux version. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best wishes, Karim

Hi Elaine, Thanks a ton. I'll give it a go ASAP. Best, Karim Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> ________________________________ From: Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 7:28:14 PM To: Karim Rafie <karim.rafie@umu.se> Cc: chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] volume morph Hi Karim, Yes the morph is added as a new model. The command both creates the morph and plays it. However, the default is only 25 frames (playstep 0.04 frames 25) and may finish playing very quickly, so maybe you didn’t notice it. For example, commands open emdb:1283 open emdb:1284 volume morph #1,2 …create #3 as the morph and quickly show it. Could try more frames if you want it to take longer: close #3; vol all show volume morph #1,2 playstep 0.01 frames 100 See description of command options: <http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/volume.html#morph> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Jan 28, 2020, at 10:06 AM, Karim Rafie <karim.rafie@umu.se> wrote:
Dear all, I would like to create a morph movie between two volumes in ChimeraX, however I am having difficulties with generating it. I am using the following command (e.g.) to "create" the morph:
volume morph #1,2 frames 50
After it has completed I get a new volume but I can't review the frames themselves, i.e. the output is a new map. I tried scouring the tutorials and command page but can't find a solution.
I tried it with the ChimeraX Ubuntu 16.04 distribution as well as the generic linux version. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best wishes, Karim

Would be nice if the volume morph showed a slider so you could move through the morph. I'll add a feature request for that. But you can replay the morph you created by adding the "model" option to the morph command, for example, volume morph #1,2 model #3 which avoids creating a new morph which would happen if you rerun your command without the model option. Tom
On Jan 28, 2020, at 10:33 AM, Karim Rafie <karim.rafie@umu.se> wrote:
Hi Elaine,
Thanks a ton. I'll give it a go ASAP.
Best, Karim
Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/ghei36> From: Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 7:28:14 PM To: Karim Rafie <karim.rafie@umu.se> Cc: chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] volume morph
Hi Karim, Yes the morph is added as a new model. The command both creates the morph and plays it. However, the default is only 25 frames (playstep 0.04 frames 25) and may finish playing very quickly, so maybe you didn’t notice it. For example, commands
open emdb:1283 open emdb:1284 volume morph #1,2
…create #3 as the morph and quickly show it. Could try more frames if you want it to take longer:
close #3; vol all show volume morph #1,2 playstep 0.01 frames 100
See description of command options: <http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/volume.html#morph <http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/volume.html#morph>>
I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Jan 28, 2020, at 10:06 AM, Karim Rafie <karim.rafie@umu.se> wrote:
Dear all, I would like to create a morph movie between two volumes in ChimeraX, however I am having difficulties with generating it. I am using the following command (e.g.) to "create" the morph:
volume morph #1,2 frames 50
After it has completed I get a new volume but I can't review the frames themselves, i.e. the output is a new map. I tried scouring the tutorials and command page but can't find a solution.
I tried it with the ChimeraX Ubuntu 16.04 distribution as well as the generic linux version. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best wishes, Karim
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Hi Tom, yes that'd be great. Thanks for pointing out how to review the movie frames. Best, Karim Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> ________________________________ From: Tom Goddard <goddard@sonic.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 8:14:28 PM To: Karim Rafie <karim.rafie@umu.se> Cc: ChimeraX Users Help <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] volume morph Would be nice if the volume morph showed a slider so you could move through the morph. I'll add a feature request for that. But you can replay the morph you created by adding the "model" option to the morph command, for example, volume morph #1,2 model #3 which avoids creating a new morph which would happen if you rerun your command without the model option. Tom On Jan 28, 2020, at 10:33 AM, Karim Rafie <karim.rafie@umu.se<mailto:karim.rafie@umu.se>> wrote: Hi Elaine, Thanks a ton. I'll give it a go ASAP. Best, Karim Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> ________________________________ From: Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:meng@cgl.ucsf.edu>> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 7:28:14 PM To: Karim Rafie <karim.rafie@umu.se<mailto:karim.rafie@umu.se>> Cc: chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu>> Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] volume morph Hi Karim, Yes the morph is added as a new model. The command both creates the morph and plays it. However, the default is only 25 frames (playstep 0.04 frames 25) and may finish playing very quickly, so maybe you didn’t notice it. For example, commands open emdb:1283 open emdb:1284 volume morph #1,2 …create #3 as the morph and quickly show it. Could try more frames if you want it to take longer: close #3; vol all show volume morph #1,2 playstep 0.01 frames 100 See description of command options: <http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/volume.html#morph> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Jan 28, 2020, at 10:06 AM, Karim Rafie <karim.rafie@umu.se<mailto:karim.rafie@umu.se>> wrote:
Dear all, I would like to create a morph movie between two volumes in ChimeraX, however I am having difficulties with generating it. I am using the following command (e.g.) to "create" the morph:
volume morph #1,2 frames 50
After it has completed I get a new volume but I can't review the frames themselves, i.e. the output is a new map. I tried scouring the tutorials and command page but can't find a solution.
I tried it with the ChimeraX Ubuntu 16.04 distribution as well as the generic linux version. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best wishes, Karim
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