Re: [ccp4bb]: making movie by Bobscript

[Charlie Bond <C.S.Bond@dundee.ac.uk>]

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Mary, 
I don't use bobscript, but the following assumes that it uses the same
syntax as molscript.
One can use a script to run the program again and again.

In the input file, add lines in the transform atom section as follows

transform atom * by centre position atom *
!by rotation z 90 etc...
by rotation y %Y% 
;

then you can write a script which substitutes %Y% for the each
subsequent angle and renders the image: 

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#!/bin/csh -f

# use perl to write a list of formatted numbers from 000 to 044
foreach n (`perl -e 'foreach$f(0..44){printf"%03d ",$f}'`)
# convert those numbers to rotation angles
@ y = $n * 8
# substitute each angle into the input file and render with molscript
and r3d
sed "s/%Y%/$y/g" del.in | molscript -r | render -sgi movie${n}.sgi
end

# now combine the 45 images into an animated gif
convert movie[0-9][0-9][0-9].sgi movie.gif
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Something similar should be possible with bobscript and other movie
compiling software.
Cheers,
Charlie
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