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Introduction

This tutorial is designed to give users of VMD an introduction to advanced techniques for making custom images and movies. The tutorial assumes that you already have a working knowledge of VMD. For the accompanying VMD tutorials go to:
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Training/Tutorials/
This tutorial has been designed for VMD versions 1.9.x, and should take about 3 hours to complete in its entirety.

The tutorial is subdivided into two separate units. In the first unit, we will look at the many options in VMD for the setup and production of images. The second unit is dedicated to trajectory use and the production of movies.

If you have any questions or comments on this tutorial, please email the TCB Tutorial mailing list at tutorial-l@ks.uiuc.edu. The mailing list is archived at http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Training/Tutorials/mailing_list/tutorial-l/.

Required programs

The following programs are required for this tutorial:

Getting Started

You can find the files for this tutorial in the imgmvtut-files directory. Below you can see in Fig. 1 the files and directories of imgmvtut-files.

Figure 1: Directory structure of imgmvtut-files
\begin{figure}\begin{center}
\par
\par
\latex{
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{pictures/imgmvtut-files}
}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

To start VMD type vmd in a Unix terminal window, double-click on the VMD application icon in the Applications folder in Mac OS X, or click on the Start $\rightarrow$ Programs $\rightarrow$ VMD menu item in Windows.

Acknowledgments

Development of this tutorial is supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH 9P41GM104601 - Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics) and the National Science Foundation (DMR-095595 and PHY-0822613).


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