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From: Suman Chakrabarty (suman_at_sscu.iisc.ernet.in)
Date: Wed Oct 15 2008 - 15:40:04 CDT

John Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> Just a quick note regarding velocity data for future reference...
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:20:33PM -0400, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
> [...]
>> vmd currently does not read or store velocity information
>> and thus will not write it out.
>
> The current version of the VMD plugin API now supports velocity data and
> the recent VMD 1.8.7 test versions will read velocity data from plugins
> that implement support for new APIs.

On a related note, if/when VMD will support velocity data, will it be
possible to show the direction of motion of some selected particles by
arrow in a snapshot? Is it possible now? It will be a very useful and
interesting feature.

--Suman. 

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