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From: Justin Gullingsrud (justin_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sat Jun 22 2002 - 17:07:56 CDT
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Hi,
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:21:01PM -0700, Jennifer Young wrote:
> User List,
>
> I want to produce an animation from a series of pdb and psf files. The
> problem is that each file has a different number of atoms. I have used the
> 'brute force' method of picking a maximum number of atoms and filling out
> each file with dummy atoms to produce a constant number of atoms which
> works. Is there any other way to do this? Another file format? Some
> scripting trick?
With scripting of course anything is possible ;) However, your method of
adding additional dummy atoms to the files is about as good as you can do;
VMD requires that all timesteps in a molecule have the same number of atoms.
Another approach you could take would be to load each psf/pdb as a separate
molecule, then produce an animation by successively turning one molecule on
at a time:
foreach molid [molinfo list] {
mol off all
mol on $molid
# do stuff here
}
Does that help? I'm not sure what you want to do with your animation, but if
you just want to produce a "canned" show that loops over all molecules, that
should do it. Let us know if you have further questions.
Cheers,
Justin
>
> Thanks,
> Jennifer
>
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