From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Apr 07 2010 - 08:43:19 CDT

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 15:05 +0200, Bjoern Olausson wrote:

> > second you can redefine the colors of one of the given scales.
> > color scale BlkW {0.1 0.0 0.0} {0.4 0.0 0.0} {0.8 0.0 0.0}
> > should do something along the lines of what you want.
> >
> No matter how I modify your command, all I get is (in the Tk-Console):
> % color scale BlkW {0.1 0.0 0.0} {0.4 0.0 0.0} {0.8 0.0 0.0}
> color scale [method|midpoint|min|max] <value>
>
> But nothing changes.

my bad. that was off the top of my head and very early in the morning.

please try:
color scale colors BlkW {0.1 0.0 0.0} {0.4 0.0 0.0} {0.8 0.0 0.0}

and your black and white scale will change to dark and full red.
if you plan to print this out, you probably want your colors to
be a bit more "dirty" colors, i.e. something like this.

color scale colors BlkW {0.2 0.0 0.0} {0.6 0.1 0.1} {0.8 0.3 0.2}

> And I don't understand the above command comparing it to the help:
> http://www.csb.yale.edu/userguides/graphics/vmd/vmd_help.html#color

please don't use that help. it appears to be over 8 years old...

cheers,
    axel.

> Playing around with those commands in the help didn't result in anything.
> I feel some kind of stupid right now... :-(

> Thanks for your help
> Kind regards
> Bjoern
>
>

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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey_at_gmail.com
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Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.