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 | | | | Command | | Argument |
| Datatype | | Default | | Min | | Max | |
| | Format: | | Ball<Atom|Res|Mol|Obj|All> |
| Selection | |
SELECTION | | - |
| - |
| - | | |
| Python: |
| Ball<Atom|Res|Mol|Obj|All>(selection1) |
| | | Menu: | | View > Ball | | |
| Related: |
| BallStick
, Stick, Style
, BallRad, StickRadius
| | | |
| Required: | |  | |
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Setting the style of an atom does not force it to become visible,
ShowAtom must be used explicitly. It is perfectly right and often useful to set the style of hidden atoms. When displaying atoms as space filling balls
, their radii are somewhat smaller than true Van der Waals radii, otherwise you could not see much. They are in fact chosen so that an atom overlap indicates either a bond or a strong bump. You can nevertheless get true Van der Waals radii in the ray-traced output,
by setting the ball zoom factor to 1.5.
Example:
BallObj 1crn
Display object 1crn as balls.
Example macro:
# EXAMPLE Ball
Clear
LoadPDB 1c9b
Style Stick
BallRes Ala Val Leu Ile
 | | Figure: Result of the example macro above. |
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