CGO Shapes

In PyMOL, a Compiled Graphics Object, or CGO, is a Python list of floating point numbers, which is compiled by PyMOL into a CGO object and associated with a given state. CGOs can be created in the PyMOL scene with the Load_CGO command.

CGO Commands

From an old version of the User Manual (and updated with current information):

Lowercase names below should be replaced with floating-point numbers. Generally, the TRIANGLE primitive should only be used only as a last restore since it is much less effective to render than using a series of vertices with a BEGIN/END group.

BEGIN, { POINTS | LINES | LINE_LOOP | LINE_STRIP | TRIANGLES | TRIANGLE_STRIP | TRIANGLE_FAN },

VERTEX, x,  y,  z,

COLOR,  red, green, blue, 

NORMAL, normal-x, normal-y,  normal-z, 

END,

LINEWIDTH, line-width, 

WIDTHSCALE, width-scale,   # for ray-tracing

SPHERE, x, y, z,  radius    # uses the current color

CYLINDER, x1, y1, z1, x2, y2, z2, radius,
          red1, green1, blue1, red2, green2, blue2,

TRIANGLE,  x1, y1, z1, 
           x2, y2, z2,
           x3, y3, z3,
           normal-x1, normal-y1, normal-z1,
           normal-x2, normal-y2, normal-z2,
           normal-x3, normal-y3, normal-z3,
           red1, green1, blue1,          
           red2, green2, blue2,          
           red3, green3, blue3,