From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2013 - 13:06:47 CST

Hi,
  As Chris pointed out already, this was done using the user-defined
clipping planes feature of VMD, with a solid clipping plane, and rendered
with POV-Ray. Control over coloring of the solid clipplane is done via
the text commands (see "mol clipplane color" commands).

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:58:11PM +0000, Mayne, Christopher G wrote:
> It looks like:
> Extensions -> Visualization -> Clipping Plane Tool
> Chris
> On Feb 26, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Robert Johnson wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
> I was wondering how the purple image of the alpha-hemolysin channel was
> made here: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/hemolysin/
> In particular, how was the cross-section made flat? Is this feature
> implemented in VMD or was this done after the image was rendered?
> Thanks,
> Bob
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