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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed May 28 2014 - 15:55:45 CDT

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Mike Makowski <mmakowsk_at_uci.edu> wrote:

> Hi Axel,
>
> Why are you so rude to people who post simple questions to the VMD mailing
> list?
>

​please ​
feel free to provide a better
​ (and friendlier)​
answer.​
​ VMD-l needs more people answering, especially "simple" questions.
​strangely enough, the people that complain about the tone of my answers
are always people that have don't answer questions themselves. hmmm...​

i'm just trying to save myself the effort of playing 20 questions. i've
done it (too) many times and what may look rude to you now, is the answer
that we would end up with after iterating this thing a few times. so i'm
simply skipping ahead. look in the archives and you'll see.

​axel.​

>
> Mike
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 28, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
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> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Sankha Mukherjee <thisissankha_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I using Lammps for simulating amorphous silicon (Lammps script attached)
>> and I need to obtain the radial distribution function for the amorphous
>> phase. I have been trying to use VMD to get the RDF using the dump file
>> (atom type, attached). When I load the dump file and use the Radial Pair
>> distribution Function tool I get the following message saying 0 frames
>> processed and a blank plot. I have tried with Nickel structure also, but
>> every time I get the message that '0 frames processed, frames skipped'. Can
>> someone suggest whats going wrong?
>>
>
> most likely your selections don't contain any atoms. please keep in mind
> that VMD has no mind reading capability and thus cannot know information
> that you ​don't provide. you use a selection "name Si"; have you checked
> whether you actually have atoms in your trajectory file with the name Si.
> the pink color of the visualization suggests, you don't.
>
> axel.
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>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Sankha
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_gmail.com http://goo.gl/1wk0
> College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
> International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.
>
> 

-- 
Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.