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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri May 03 2013 - 16:10:31 CDT

Hi,
  To draw spheres that visibly rotate around their center, you would
likely want to draw them yourself using a triangle mesh composed of
some kind of alternating color scheme that makes the orientation of
the spheres obvious and will make them easier to visually interpret.
I would suggest that you look at some of the recently discussed
scripts for rendering ellipsoids or other geometry as a starting point.
You can search the VMD-L archive to find these.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 10:33:38PM +0000, Das, Debasish wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I need to show spheres that are rotating around their centres. I am
> already using VMD to make movies of dielectric spheres in a dielectric
> fluid interacting with each other in an electric field. The new phenomenon
> that i am studying has spinning spheres and I wish to show them in a
> movie.
>
> Thanks
> Debasish Das 

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