> Of course it would be a whole lot easier if PyMol output VRML 
> directly   
> ..... Warren ?????

Chris Want's latest VRML2 code is now in CVS (with a few minor tweaks of
my own...)

save my_vrml.wrl

Cheers,
Warren

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of 
> Laurence Pearl
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:35 AM
> To: Benjamin Hitz
> Cc: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: : [PyMOL] Surface Vertex Coordinates 
> 
> The Povray intermediate file generated when you do 'ray 
> renderer = 1'  
> contains all vertices, normals and colouring information for 
> cartoon and surface object types. However you do need to 
> produce a parsing script to extract these in to a useful form 
> for importing into other programs. Have a look at the front 
> cover of Mol Cell vol 20(4) - I generated a cartoon of the 
> protein in PyMol, output it as a povray file, and then 
> converted it to VRML using a jiffy produced by Chris  
> Richardson, and then used it as an object in the Blender 3D 
> modelling   
> package to generate the picture.
> 
> Of course it would be a whole lot easier if PyMol output VRML 
> directly   
> ..... Warren ?????
> 
> Laurence Pearl
> 
> 
> On 15 Mar 2006, at 17:01, Benjamin Hitz wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> I am interested in the coordinates of the vertices of the mesh 
> >> representation of the molecular surface. Is there any 
> method to read 
> >> them out?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >
> > Me too.  With coloring and/or other "property" information as well.
> >
> >
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