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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 22 2001 - 16:17:35 CDT

Dear Michael,
  Here are some additional answers to your questions:

  1) ask sergei_at_ks.uiuc.edu (per Justin's message from a few minutes ago)

  2) Yes, VMD can be used to give presentations on laptops with projectors.
     If you want to give good real-time presentations using VMD on a laptop,
     it is important that you have a pretty fast laptop, with a good amount
     of memory, and the fastest graphics you can get on the laptop. There
     are a new generation of laptops just coming onto the market now which
     have the NVidia GeForce 2 GO chips on them, these would likely be the
     best performing laptop graphics option for VMD, running several times
     faster for VMD than all of the laptop graphics hardware I've seen to date.

  3) See Brian Bennion's comments on getting Raster3D to work, in his email
     from the other day. An alternative would be to use one of the other
     external rendering programs supported by VMD such as Tachyon or POV-Ray.
     We have started to include Tachyon binaries in with VMD recently,
     specifically to make it easier for Windows users of VMD to ray trace
     their VMD images. Tachyon is a ray tracing program that I developed, so
     if you have questions about it, please feel free to ask. Tachyon runs
     at least as fast as Raster3D does and has fewer size limitations etc,
     so you may wish to consider using it, if you have no particular preference
     for using Raster3D or POV-Ray.

Let us know if you have more questions.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:44:27AM -0400, Arent, Michael wrote:
> 1. I just recently stumbled upon VMD and am very excited about some of the
> plans I have for using it in the future, specifically in seminar
> presentations. One question is that, in the gallery, there is a image of
> the molecule referenced above. Let's just assume this is a .pdb file, would
> such a file include the coordinates of the fatty acids (yellow chains) or
> are these "drawn in" with some other program?
>
> 2. Is anyone familiar with using such software in conjunction with a laptop
> and a projector for seminar presentations?
>
> 3. I downloaded Raster 3D, but I did not know how to install it. Does
> anyone know if this can be installed on a W98 PC, if so, how?
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Michael Arent
>
> Schering-Plough Research Institute
> Analytical Development
> (908)820-6195
> michael.arent_at_spcorp.com
>
>
>
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