From: Eric H. Lee (ericlee_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 12 2009 - 18:26:11 CDT

The brute force approach would be to make an atomselection by residue
number (i.e. resid 1 3 5 7 9 .....), and then color by colorID.

Eric

On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Christine Horejs wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> does anyone know, if it is possible to color every second residue in
> another color independently of the residue type? So, let's say every
> second residue blue, and the other ones red? Does this work in VMD?
>
> Thank you all for your help,
>
> Christine