From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon May 03 2010 - 15:05:03 CDT

Hi,
  Just to add to what Axel said, this topic has been on my radar for
quite a while, but I haven't been able to wrestle the time to implement
a high performance ellipsoid rendering path in VMD (and Tachyon, POV-Ray,
etc) yet. Maybe this summer I'll finally have a chance to put in the
hours on it.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 04:08:54PM -0400, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Germain Vallverdu
> <germain_vallverdu_at_yahoo.fr> wrote:
> > Dear VMD users
>
> dear germain,
>
> > I am using anisotropic potential for ellipsoidal particles and I would
> > like to find a way to vizualise configurations extrated from a dynamics
> > with pymol. I would like to know if is it a way to do so with VMD ?
>
> not directly. it would require some work in the internals of VMD.
> not impossible (i've looked into it a while ago), but not trivial either.
>
> a workaround would be to convert your ellipsoids into two atoms
> with a bond and then use the licorice representation.
>
> salut,
> axel.
>
> >
> > Thank you for your help
> >
> > Germain
> >
> >  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Germain Salvato-Vallverdu
> > post-doctorant CEA/DAM/DPTA/SPMC/LDDM
> > 01 69 26 48 01
> > PagePerso : http://germain.salvato-vallverdu.perso.sfr.fr
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
>
> --
> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_gmail.com
> http://sites.google.com/site/akohlmey/
>
> Institute for Computational Molecular Science
> Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.

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