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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 25 2009 - 10:03:21 CDT

Hi,
  For your purpose, you need to enable the "update selection every frame"
option found in the "trajectory" tab in the graphical representations window.
Let us know if you need more help with this.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 03:55:00PM +0100, Dan Lussier wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am interested in visualizing an atom selection that remains constant
> on a region of space (i.e. x<5 and y<5 and z<5) through the animation
> of subsequent frames.
>
> Presently when I use the "Selected Atoms" input in the "Graphical
> Representations" pane in the GUI the atoms I select at a given frame
> remain constant through subsequent frames. Although this is useful in
> some cases, here I would like a new group of atoms corresponding to
> the region to be selected at each frame.
>
> I have some experience in doing similar things through tcl scripts for
> the purpose of analysis rather than visualization but am not sure how
> to proceed here as I'd like to do more exploratory visualization here
> as would be typically done through the GUI (i.e. setting colours,
> materials, drawing method, etc.).
>
> Any advice here either for using the GUI or a script would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan 

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