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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 15:08:14 CDT

Dear Mario,
  I won't have time to give you further guidance on this topic until I
return from a conference late next week. In the mean time, perhaps some
of my colleagues could address your needs or one of the other VMD users
subscribing to VMD-L can help you out. If you haven't solved this
already by next Friday when I return, please send us another note and
I'll help you get this working.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:23:28AM +0200, Mario Schubert wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> > One (relatively) easy method is to generate a sequence of PDB files
> > concatenated together as a single big file. VMD will read such a file
> > as a trajectory. Alternately, you could make up your own file format
> > and write a plugin for VMD to read it, if you know how to write C code.
> > Let us know if you need more help with this.
>
> Thank you very much. That sounds good. I have found the PDB format, but this
> is a very complex file format.
>
> Is there a simple description for my purpose:
>
> I would like to animate atoms and there electrons, where I know the positions
> for the time steps.
> I know that is not the intention of VMD, but I think it is no problem to do
> this. ;-)
>
> Thank you for your help?
>
> Ciao,
> Mario Schubert
> ---------------------------------------------
> Beschleunigerlabor der LMU und TU München
> Dipl. Phys. Mario Schubert
> EMail: mario.schubert_at_physik.uni-muenchen.de
> Phone: (+49 89)289 14283
> FAX: (+49 89)289 14280
> Am Coulombwall 6, D-85748 Garching, Germany 

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