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From: jani vinod (genomejani_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue May 18 2010 - 23:14:46 CDT

Thank you sir for the reply
the following script was posted by Justin Gullingsrud

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/att-2279/fit_angle.tcl

and I am using the same for the calculation.

So can you guide how I will able to calculate angle between two vectors.

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:32 AM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> Since you didn't include the full script it's hard to guess if
> "sel1" and "sel2" are actually vectors or if they are VMD atom
> selection objects. My guess is that they are atom selection objects
> and not vectors based on the name of the procedure and the names of
> the parameters.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 05:34:20PM +0530, jani vinod wrote:
> > Hello sir,
> > I want to calculate angle between two vectors.
> > vec1 would be having two points start and end
> > vec2 similarly would be having start and end
> >
> > so when I am using the following procedure
> >
> > proc sel_sel_angle { sel1 sel2 } {
> >
> > because if sel1 and sel2 are single points then lsq procedure is
> returns
> > zero value
> >
> > Actually the problem is how to passing the vectors to sel_sel_angle.
> >
> > I would be very thankful if you can explain me by some example
> >
> > Thanking you
> > vinod
>
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