Wow! That's it. I wonder why that works but setting the rbg for "black" to
0,0,0 doesn't?
I used:
set_color new_black, [0,0,0]
select all
color new_black
Looks mahvelous.
Thanks a lot.
Pete
UCLA Chemistry
Thomas Stout <tst...@exelixis.com> said:
>
> I have defined a new color in PyMOL that gets me closer to "real" black:
>
> pymol> set_color new_black [0,0,0]
>
> then,
>
> pymol> color new_black obj01
>
> It's not really, completely total black, but it's much blacker than
> whatever Warren has defined in the pull-down menu!
>
> -Tom
>
>
> >Hello Matt,
> >
> >Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately this still gives me a very light
> >grey--nowhere near what you are seeing on your machine. The molecule is
> >*clearly* visible against the black background. I am using pymol on win
XP. I
> >think I will put pymol on my linux machine and see if that makes a
difference.
> >
> >Pete
> >
> >
> >Matt Franklin <franklin.m...@gene.com> said:
> >
> >>
> >> On Monday, April 26, 2004, at 04:19 PM, <pdouc...@chem.ucla.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hello Pymoliacs,
> >> >
> >> > I have been playing around with the lighting and gamma settings, but
> >> > can
> >> > never get a true black. The black always shows up as grey. Does anyone
> >> > know
> >> > how to get black to be black?
> >> >
> >> > Pete D.
> >> > UCLA Chemistry
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> Hi Pete -
> >>
> >> If what you want is a "flat black", i.e. just a silhouette of the
> >> ribbon/surface/whatever, then set the color to black and turn the
> >> specular reflections off ("set specular, 0"). This certainly looks
> >> like rgb 0,0,0 to me (MacPymol v.0.94, OS X 10.2.8) and is completely
> >> invisible in front of a black background. If you're looking for a
> >> black with some texture visible, then you will get some gr(e/a)y in
> >> with your black...
> >>
> >> Hope this helps,
> >>
> >> Matt
> >>
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