From chemistry-request@server.ccl.net Wed Mar 13 10:43:38 2002 Received: from lark.cc.ku.edu (root@[129.237.34.2]) by server.ccl.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g2DFhcp03959 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:43:38 -0500 Received: from MGM01 by lark.cc.ku.edu (8.8.8/1.1.8.2/12Jan95-0207PM) id JAA0000026334; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:43:34 -0600 (CST) From: "Gerry Lushington" To: Subject: 3D to 2D coordinate compression Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:45:53 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Hi all, At the risk of sounding retrograde, does anyone know of a good (preferably simple, UNIX based) program to project 3D coordinates down to reasonable looking 2D structures? Obviously a trivial suggestion could be to arbitrarily wipe out one axis, but as you can imagine that can produce some pretty awful looking tangles. - Gerry Gerald Lushington, Director Molecular Graphics and Modeling Laboratory & Cty Asst Professor of Medicinal Chemistry University of Kansas 1251 Wescoe Hall Rd. Lawrence KS 66045-7582 ------------------------------------------ 3021 Malott Hall Ph. 785-864-1140 glushington@ku.edu Fax 785-864-5326 http://www.msg.ukans.edu/~msg/mgm.html