VMD Color Palette

Usage

vmd_colors(n=33, picker=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

n
The number of desired colors chosen in sequence from the VMD color palette (>=1)
picker
Logical, if TRUE a color wheel plot will be produced to aid with color choice.
...
Extra arguments passed to the rgb function, including alpha transparency.

Description

This function creates a character vector of the colors used by the VMD molecular graphics program.

Details

The function uses the underlying 33 RGB color codes from VMD, See http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/. Note that colors will be recycled if “n” > 33 with a warning issued. When ‘picker’ is set to “TRUE” a color wheel of the requested colors will be plotted to the currently active device.

Value

Returns a character vector with color names.

References

Grant, B.J. et al. (2006) Bioinformatics 22, 2695--2696.

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/

Examples

## Generate a vector of 10 colors
clrs <- vmd_colors(10)
vmd_colors(4, picker=TRUE)



        1         2         3         4 
"#0000FF" "#FF0000" "#595959" "#FF8000"

See also

bwr.colors

Author

Barry Grant