COLOR OPTIONS

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1. Global Color

2. Per Atom-type

3. Per Residue-type

4. Per ARU

Option 1: Global Color

Keyboard Instruction:

COLOR BLACK/RED/GREEN/BLUE/YELLOW/ORANGE/VIOLET/BROWN

In general, bond & atom outlines will be drawn with this default color.

Option 2: Per Atom Type

Color assignment is done on the basis of element-type.

The default assignments may be changed with the keyboard instruction:

COLOR TYPE atom-type col (atom-type col ..)

or from the PLUTON StyleMenu entry:SelectColor

Color is switched on/off with by clicking on the menu box col or with the keyboard instruction:

COLOR (on/off)

or implicitly switched on with

STRAW COLOR

This option may be combined with the 'Black-and-White' Patterns:

BWC (on/off)

Option 3: Per Residue type

Residues (i.e. isolated connected species) can be displayed with differing colors either by clicking on the resd box or with the keyboard instruction:

COLOR RESD

The assigned default color for residues may be changed with a keyboard instruction.

Example:

ARU BLUE 3

Option 4: Per ARU

ARU's may be given distinguishing colors with instructions such as

ARU red 1555.01 1556.01
ARU green 1565.01

ARU-related colors are displayed with:

COLOR ARU (on/off)

or by clicking the 'col ARU' menu field

This option may be combined with the 'Black-and-White' Patterns:

BWC (on/off)

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