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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2013 - 12:33:40 CST

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Jiawei Xu <jix20.forward_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using bigdcd to read dcd files, and it works very well. However,
> since the dcd files are getting larger and larger, I don't want to
> read all of the frames but every second frame (or every 3/4/5th
> frame). I am wondering if there is a method to solve it. Thanks very

just have a look at the VMD documentation!

bigdcd uses "animate read" to read in its data and
that has an option "skip". so all you need to do is
to adjust your copy of the bigdcd script accordingly.

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/ug/node120.html

axel.

> much!
>
>
>
> --
> Jiawei Xu PhD
> School of Medicine
> University of Pittsburgh 

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International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.