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From: Johannes Haataja (jh2225_at_cam.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Mar 06 2021 - 13:58:14 CST

Dear John,
        ok - thank you for your reply. I guess there's no other MD
software (LAMMPS etc) that would offer a work around(?)

My best,
        Johannes

la, 2021-03-06 kello 12:46 -0600, John Stone kirjoitti:
> VMD has a so-called "lattice cube" representation which was added
> for the benefit of Lattice Microbes visualizations, but that is the
> only other shape it currently allows for particles by default.
>
> I had hoped to work with the HOOMD team to add support for
> visualizing
> arbitrary shapes for their particles, but they lost interest in
> collaborating
> after they began writing their own visualization code.
> Since I don't know anything about their file formats or requirements
> for such a feature, it's not something I would undertake on my own
> without their involvement.
>
> Best,
> John
>
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 12:27:04PM +0000, Johannes Haataja wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > is it possible in VMD to visualize individual atoms using
> > custom shapes e.g cubes or tetrahedrons, instead of VDW spheres? Or
> > is
> > only possible perhaps via importing STL files etc...?
> >
> > My best,
> > Johannes
> >
> > PS: The reason I'm asking is that I would like visualize some hard
> > particle Monte Carlo simulations, cf.
> >
> >
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://hoomd-blue.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/00-Introducing-HOOMD-blue/07-Analyzing-Trajectories.html__;!!DZ3fjg!vONRATg-Q_EgeJPGdpUrZl8uZWbaXFQYQDtI4mJMReVOXnMGNZE-NH-DYSZ1HQ-bZg$
> >
> >
> > and although VMD can read gsd trajectories, I haven't found a way
> > to
> > create custom particle shapes...
> >
>
>