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330	Display helices as curved tubes	olibclarke@…	Conrad Huang	"Begin forwarded message:

From: Oliver Clarke <>
Subject: Re: ChimeraX suggestion - forward/back depth cueing ramps
Date: May 26, 2016 at 11:50:48 AM PDT
To: Tom Goddard 

Also, I still think curved helices (e.g. as in Cuemol - http://www.cuemol.org/en/index.php?Gallery - but perhaps they could be implemented better) would be a great addition to ChimeraX as a different representation style - helical ribbons themselves add visual clutter to structures of large molecules, and pipes-and-planks is a bit too crude for such figures. Possibly the attached paper might be useful at some point for implementing curved helices in a way that is more simplified than a simple sliding window approach, but with a little more fidelity to the underlying structure than a series of rigid cylinders? Anyway, as usual take or leave, just a thought.

Cheers,
Oli."	enhancement	closed	major		Depiction		duplicate						all	ChimeraX