Re: [PyMOL] Generate Surfaces from a dot cloud

Mathias,

PyMOL brute-forces a solution to this problem for molecular surfaces with
relatively evenly-spaced points.  The relevant source file is
layer0/Triangle.c.

Cheers,
Warren


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> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 11:05 PM
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> Subject: [PyMOL] Generate Surfaces from a dot cloud
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a possibility to do a surface triangulation 
> for molecules, where I have basicly given only surface 
> points. Is this possible with pymol or can you point me some 
> sources for doing this. I did some searching through the 
> scientific world and came across several triangulation 
> algorithms and libraries but unfortunately I'm not a 
> mathematician nor a big programmer so that I didn't see the 
> possibility to easy use them for molecule surfaces.
> After some thinking I recognized that there are several 
> opensource molecular modelling programs out there and as I do 
> not want to reinvent the wheel I ask this here.
> 
> Mathias
> 
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