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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sat Aug 09 2014 - 19:05:25 CDT

On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Gamot, Ritchie <R.M.Gamot_at_warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
> Good day!
>
>
> I would like to know if anyone can give me an idea on how to represent a
> two-faced janus particles in VMD?

just use two spheres where each has a different atom type but the same
radius and place them a tiny bit apart.

> I am currently working on janus clusters (saving its particle centre and
> centre of each of its face). I wonder if there is a way to format my file so
> that it can be read into VMD and visualize it correctly.

just write them out in a file format that VMD supports. please note
that for most file formats, VMD expects
coordinates to be written out in the same order, since from all but
the first frame, only the coordinate information is read. exceptions
are only file formats that have an internal indexing (like for LAMMPS)

axel.

>
> Thank you very much!
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Chimie 

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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.