4.17 Atomic Dots

You can draw dots round arbitrary atom selections

(dots imol atom-selection dot-density radius) The function returns a handle.

e.g. put a sphere of dots around all atoms of the 0th molecule (it might be a set of heavy atom coordinates) at the default dot density and radius:

(dots 0 "/1" "heavy-atom-sites" 1 1)

You can't change the colour of the dots.

There is no internal mechanism to change the radius according to atom type. With some cleverness you might be able to call this function several times and change the radius according to the atom selection.

There is a function to clear up the dots for a particular molecule imol and dots set identifier dots-handle

(clear-dots imol dots-handle)

There is a function to return how many dots sets there are for a particular molecule imol:

(n-dots-set imol)