From: Kevin C Chan (cchan2242-c_at_my.cityu.edu.hk)
Date: Wed Jun 29 2016 - 09:14:01 CDT

​Thanks so much for the reply. That's what I am asking for.

However when I want to try out Fernando's script, I found that I could not
get a VMD binary with TachyonOptiX to work. I thought it was built-in, but
the RHEL binary seems not compatible with my CentOS, saying "make: *** No
rule to make target `y.tab.h', needed by `vmd_LINUXAMD64'. Stop." when I
typed make.

Also it is surprisingly difficult to find a compilation guide for VMD.

I am wondering whether I could obtain a binary TachyonOptiXInternal and
execute it using a Text-only VMD on the cluster/nodes.

Thanks,
Kevin

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Fernando Vallejos-Burgos <
nandobike_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> I use a very simple TCL script for rendering animations remotely.
> It goes something like this, for example, for 1000 frames rendering in
> TachyonOptiX after you set the viewpoint:
>
> display shadows on
> display resize 1280 720
> display ambientocclusion on
> display aoambient 0.80
> display aodirect 0.50
> for {set i 0} {$i < 1000} {incr i 1} {
> display update
> animate goto $i
> set filename ./snap_[format "%04d" [expr $i]].tga
> render aasamples TachyonLOptiXInternal 256
> render TachyonLOptiXInternal $filename
> }
>
> then I just source the TCL file and call this procedure.
> For me, it runs quite fast in GPU.
>
> Hope this can help!
>
> Fernando
>
>
> -------
> Dr. Fernando Vallejos-Burgos
> Researcher at Center for Energy and Environmental Science
> Shinshu University, Wakasato, Nagano 380-8553, Japan
> Personal web: http://www.vallejos.cl
> Labo web: http://www.shinshu-u.ac.jp/faculty/engineering/kaneko-group/
>
>
>
> On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:14 PM, Kevin C Chan <cchan2242-c_at_my.cityu.edu.hk>
> wrote:
>
> ​Thanks for your reply. ​I am wondering what pseudo code would it be like.
> Simply
>
> source visualization state
> tachyon_binary ...
>
> ? As I used to do it through GUI, I have to
> 1) tune the visual angle
> 2) turn on AO
> 3) render > tachyon/tachyon_internal > type BMP as extension
>
> How could all these be done using a script?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:34 AM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Hi, sorry for the slow reply, I just returned from international travel
>
>
>