On Feb 21, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Jacob Keller wrote:
is there a good way to put text labels into movies from pymol or otherwise? It would be helpful for conveying some ideas...
As Jason pointed out, PyMOL has some useful facilities for this. Chimera has a tool for placing standalone text and arrows called 2D Labels. The arrows and text can be any color and the text can also be various sizes, styles (italics, etc.) and typefaces (serif etc.), all on a per-character basis. You can place text and arrows interactively with the mouse or via commands. Text can also be faded in or out as a movie plays/records.
A pretty nice example use of 2D Labels in the "DNA basics" movie on this page: http://crc.nd.edu/index.php/cyberinfrastructure/visualization/80
Chimera home page: www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera 2D Labels page: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/current/docs/ContributedSoftware/2dlabels/2dlabels.html --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu
