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Re: [ccp4bb]: plastic model
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Dear Jose,
I'm not sure if its useful in your case but I had a model of a whole
virus
made recently via an .STL file.
1) I got a map file containing the distance of each grid point from the
nearest atom. (A crappy program called VOLUMES I wrote ages ago.)
2) I used BobScript to render the molecular surface by surface
contouring
the map at about 1.4 (Angstroms).
3) I wrote a small program (r3d2stl) to convert the triangulated surface
to STL format.
4) I checked it was OK with the DeskArtes View Expert.
5) I compressed the file with STLZip and emailed it to the RTP group.
STL format is a very limited format and it is a convenient feature of
BobScript surface contouring that the output maps trivially to STL.
Cheers,
Robert Esnouf
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Dr. Robert Esnouf, Division of Structural Biology,
The Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine,
Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
Emails: robert@strubi.ox.ac.uk Tel: (+44) - 1865 - 287560
and robert@esnouf.com Fax: (+44) - 1865 - 287547