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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2013 - 11:17:29 CDT

Hi Andrei,
  If your doing a surface rendering (triangle mesh) then
the surface you see should fall exactly on the isovalue you requested.
If you are using the "points" based surface display, then the you will
see points at the grid point nearest to the requested isovalue, but not
necessarily exactly at the isovalue you requested. So, the answer depends
on which rendering method you're using with the isosurface representation.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:21:14AM -0400, Andrei Tudor wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When one is visualizing a dx map in vmd with isosurface drawing method does it show only the point that have the exact isovalue you chose?
>
> If I decide to look at an isovalue of 0.17 does he only show the points with 0.17 or with higher isovalue also?
>
> Thank you,
> Andrei 

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