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From: Aleksei Aksimentiev (aksiment_at_illinois.edu)
Date: Mon May 03 2010 - 16:14:13 CDT

Well, you can alway do that using a draw command. See: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Training/Tutorials/vmd-ref/imgmv/tutorial-html/index.html

Alek

On May 3, 2010, at 3:05 PM, John Stone wrote:

>
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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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