From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2013 - 06:05:11 CDT

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Georgios Gerogiokas
<G.Gerogiokas_at_sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows how to extract the
> coordinates of the grid points in an isosurface created
> at a particular isovalue, for instance from a dx file during
> a vmd session.

i dont' think this is possible directly, but there are some dusty
corners in VMD that i have not looked into for a long time. what might
work is to reset view and camera and everything to simple unit
transformation and then output the isosurface to a render program and
parse the resulting file.

axel.

>
> Many thanks,
> George
>
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