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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 28 2011 - 19:46:03 CDT

dear tom,

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Thomas Bishop <bishop_at_latech.edu> wrote:
> Dear VMD,
>
> I have access to a display wall. I haven't tried to use it yet but a quick
> skim of manual says I can't do
> trajectory animations but only rotations etc...(if I read it correclty)

why not?

> What if instead of a single trajectory  or molecular image displayed
> across the entire wall , I want to display results from an ensemble of
> calculations... say
> I have a tiled display wall of 16 monitors and I have 16 simulations
> each w/ nearly identical molecs and trajectory data but DIFF simulations.
>
> Is there a simple way to control separate instances of VMD (one for each
> monitor ) w/ a single GUI s.t the rotations, animations, selections in
> one are used for all instances?

that really depends on how you address the individual screens.
with X11 one do some pretty nifty manipulations via "xprop" or
the "wm" command that comes with Tk. i'm using a hack like
that to have the VMD OpenGL window reflect the name to the
current "top" molecule.
http://sites.google.com/site/akohlmey/random-hacks/vmd-initialization-scripts#TOC-Molecule-Name-in-Window-Title

similar things can be done to remove "decorations" and go fullscreen
or change position and geometry. in part this is also available as
part of the native "menu" and "display" commands in VMD.

however, there is something to be said about having one
huge VMD display. we recently managed to hook up
three projectors to project on a cylindrical screen for
doing interactive MD with VMD. however that requires
special software and a hacked VMD version that can
account for the overlap of the projectors and the distortion
due to the bent screen.
http://sites.google.com/site/akohlmey/news-and-announcements/vmdmulti-projectoroutputforinteractivemd
now if only stereo would have worked, too.
(VMD the GPUs were set up for it, but one of
the projectors had a firmware issue).

cheers,
   axel.

> Think campbell's soup&  andy warhol meet VMD.
>
> THanks
>
> Tom
>
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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
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Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.