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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue May 18 2004 - 08:56:09 CDT

Marc,
  While not presently implemented, it would not be difficult to
add such a capability if it were deemed generally useful.
In particular, one would need some scaling factor since the data
fields are not bound to particular value ranges. At the very least I
suppose one would have controls to set min/max/scaling for this effect
similar to the min/max range mapping for colors found in the trajectory
tab presently. As usual, finding space for the GUI controls for this
would be the main issue in adding such a feature. The NewRibbons
representation could be modified in a straightforward way to accomodate
such a feature.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 12:26:26PM +0200, Marc Baaden wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I wonder whether it is possible to use VMD to display a protein
> backbone/Ca trace as tube or ribbon, where the diameter of the
> ribbon at the position of a given residue varies as a function of
> a value (eg beta column in the PDB) supplied by the user.
>
> Marc
>
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