From: BIN ZHANG (zhngbn_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 14 2009 - 19:06:01 CDT
Hi, Giacomo:
Thanks for your reply.
I had the following lines in my cvConfigFile:
group2 {
dummyAtom (-10.1433 , -0.251229 , -19.0435) # the initial
COM of these cyto residues
}
Indeed, the dummy_atom_pos is initialized correctly in the code.
However, while calculating the distance, where the center_of_mass of a
group is referenced, it will return zero for the dummy group.
Thanks,
Bin
On Oct 14, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Giacomo Fiorin wrote:
> Hi Bin, dummy_atom_pos is initialized earlier on, after the argument
> of "dummyAtom". Did you experience that this position is still zero
> (the origin) even when you give it some other point in space?
>
> Giacomo
>
> ---- ----
> Giacomo Fiorin
> ICMS - Institute for Computational Molecular Science
> Temple University
> 1900 N 12 th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122
> work phone: (+1)-215-204-4216
> mobile: (+1)-267-324-7676
> mail: giacomo.fiorin_at_temple.edu
> ---- ----
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:57 PM, BIN ZHANG <zhngbn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, all:
>> While experiencing with the newly available and great colvar
>> module, I found
>> a strange behavior for the *dummyAtom* option. It seems to me that
>> the
>> center of mass for the dummy atom would always be zero with the
>> current code
>> in the CVS. Actually, looking at the function
>> atom_group::center_of_mass()
>> in the colvaratoms.C file, it looks like a bug to me. The blue code
>> I added
>> myself, should be necessary to get the correct center of mass, I
>> think.
>> Does this make sense to you ?
>> Thanks,
>> Bin
>> ===============================================
>> cvm::atom_pos cvm::atom_group::center_of_mass() const
>> {
>> if (b_dummy) {
>> return dummy_atom_pos;
>> }
>> cvm::atom_pos com (0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
>> for (cvm::atom_const_iter ai = this->begin();
>> ai != this->end(); ai++) {
>> com += ai->mass * ai->pos;
>> }
>> com /= this->total_mass;
>> return com;
>> }
>>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.6 : Wed Feb 29 2012 - 15:53:22 CST