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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2014 - 17:01:55 CST

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Jacob Durrant <jacobdurrant_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> A few months ago I was visiting Klaus Schulten's group, and one of the VMD
> developers there showed me a very convenient atom selection for selecting
> every other atom, or every third atom, etc. It made viewing large structures
> much faster and easier. I've searched the internet and can't find that
> command anywhere. Can anyone here point me in the right direction?

you probably are looking for something like "(index % 4) == 1" which
picks every 4th atom starting from the second. check out this one and
the subpages:

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-1.9.1/ug/node88.html

axel.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Jacob 

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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.