From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 16:21:24 CDT

Hi,
  I'll write a script to do this for you. It'll take me a couple
days before I can get to it though, I'm in the middle of trying to
prepare VMD 1.8.1 for release.

  John

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:01:06PM +0300, yifat b wrote:
> Thanks a lot, John for your help.
> I had some mail problems so I'm not sure you got my last mail (I didn't
> see it in the mailing list), if you did - I'm sorry, please ignore this
> one.
> I've been trying to change the scrips but I'm not sure how to do it, I
> will appreciate it if you could help me.
> Thank you very much,
> Yifat.
>
>
> On Mon, 12 May 2003, John Stone wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> > Yes, it is possible to create animatios of structures with
> > changing numbers of atoms. This is not a built-in feature of
> > VMD however; you'll need to write a Tcl script to do the work
> > for you. The method for making such an animation would be similar
> > in principle to these two scripts, except that you'll need to load
> > each frame as a separate molecule in VMD, rather than as timesteps
> > into a single molecule.
> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/script_library/scripts/animatepdbs
> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/script_library/scripts/trajectory_movie_short
> >
> > You should be able to modify these two scripts to create an animation
> > using structures loaded as separate molecules.
> >
> > If you need more help with this, let us know.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 12:50:17PM +0300, yifat b wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > Does anyone know if it's possible to make an animation with different
> > > numbers of atoms at each frame?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Yifat.
> >
> >

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