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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 20 2011 - 20:10:23 CDT

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:07 PM, lam nguyen <lamvn08_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> In the graphical representation I use lines as the drawing method. In my
> system I name different segments (segname) as EVE, ODD and NEW. I want to
> use different colors for these categories so I can tell which bond
> (appearing as a line) belongs to which segment category. I also have bonds
> between atoms of different segments and want to color them differently from
> bonds on the same segments.
> For example, I have two segments of segname NEW. One has atoms A1, A2,...
> and the other has B1, B2, ... I color bonds between A's and bonds between
> B's as blue. And I want bonds between A's and B's as red. If there are few
> segments of segname NEW I can just create one representation for the whole
> system as red, then overlap it by a set of representations in blue - one for
> each segment. However there are quite many of such segments. If I use only
> one representation for all segments of segname NEW, the bonds between A's
> and B's will appear as blue. Is there any method I can use without creating
> lots of representations?

hard to say. it is difficult to imagine what your system
looks like, but since your assignments seem fairly
predictable, you could consider writing a script that will
generate the many different individual representations.

axel.

> Thanks,
> Lam 

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