Developers: The PyMOL Core is an Object Oriented C Program
Here is a simplified summary of the PyMOL object tree.
The PyMOL
Scene has
Objects, such as molecules which have many
Atoms, each of which may have one or more
Coordinate sets, which may have one or more
Representations that appear on the screen.
The Scene may also contain other
Objects, such as maps, meshes, distances, labels, etc