In YASARA you can easily create
cut-planes, that clip part of an object away and let you look inside.
The most prominent application is to cut surfaces open, as shown in
figure 1.
Cut-planes can be rotated and shifted
interactively, and you can
combine multiple cut-planes to create convex, as well as concave
clipping objects. The movie in figure 2 shows a few of the
possibilities.
Figure 1: A cut-plane object used to
clip half of a molecular surface away and show the protein.
Figure 2: Screen
recording of
YASARA's interactive cut-plane tutorial. A higher quality version
can be watched at
YouTube, click on 'Watch in high
quality'
below the video. Since YASARA creates these
animations in real-time using
OpenGL, simply download the corresponding macro (GNU GPL licensed) from
the YASARA movie page to watch it in highest
resolution with up to 60 frames per second. Background created by Sven
Geier.
