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Prions =:0
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:43 am
by Macrob
Hi all! Here is my next molecule of the month (May 2008). This time a functional prion
I post this as a WIP, because I would like to use a more interesting background, but all I can imagine would be too much (ok, some might say it is already too much
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And I finally I figured out how to cite
Data from here:
http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/static.do?p=edu ... 101_3.html
PDB ID: 2RNM
Wasmer, C., Lange, A., Van Melckebeke, H., Siemer, A.B., Riek, R., Meier, B.H. (2008) Amyloid fibrils of the HET-s(218-289) prion form a beta solenoid with a triangular hydrophobic core Science 319: 1523-1526
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:48 am
by OnoSendai
cool
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:06 am
by zsouthboy
It would be much more visually interesting with some color
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:11 am
by PureSpider
Yes; color the atoms...
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:09 am
by Kram1032
...but don't overdo it (especially don't oversaturate) : It needs to be artistically - not scientifically - pleasant
At the first glance it seems to have a face in the middle xD
One idea for adding a background:
With increased shadow in the distance, add instances around the original molecule
- the others should be quite dark so that it doesn't get overly confusing.
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:45 am
by Macrob
PureSpider and zsouthboy:
Pretty funny
I thought about coloring specific structures, but if I want to keep some scientific "truth" it simply would not look good and it would be much too much work. It is one mesh and I would have to assign the material manually to every atom (I guess you guessed that).
I like it that way, kind of a snowflake
Kram1032: Interesting idea, but my RAM only takes one of these
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:08 am
by Kram1032
I mean instances... they shouldn't really increase the use of RAM...
Try this with correct scales to get correctness of the DoF effect
xD
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:44 am
by Borgleader
Cool stuff
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:52 am
by zsouthboy
It wouldn't be too hard to do some sort of random material assigning during the PDB import (I've used the script you're probably using for this. yay proteins!)
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:20 pm
by CTZn
that's huge !
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:40 pm
by Macrob
zsouthboy wrote:... (I've used the script you're probably using for this. yay proteins!)
Cool! A script. I will try this ASAP. I still convert the pdbs to obj
EDIT: Hmm, I found 2 scripts, but both don't work.
With my "secret" method, I con use different visualisation modes too, for example Cartoon. Here the coloring would be easier