support for multiple cartoon formats about 3dmol.js HOT 6 CLOSED

Do we still want the option to display alpha helices as simple cylinders?

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yes, and a ribbon option

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Do you have an example of what the ribbon style should look like?

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Basically don't do anything special for helices and sheets (all loop style). If we could have both a tubular style and a flat style like that it would be great.

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I've added a ribbon option that forces the width of the strand to follow the thickness property rather than being secondary-structure-dependent. This can be specified in addition to the style property, allowing ribbons in oval (tubular), default (edged), rectangle ("rounded edged"), etc. The thickness of any strand can be set to 0 for a "flat" style. For alpha helix cylinders, I'm currently using $3Dmol.GLDraw.drawCylinder(), which has an option for either rounded caps or no caps at all- is this ok for now or should I modify the function to allow flat caps as well, which appears to be what pymol uses for basic alpha helices?

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I think we have enough styles now.

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