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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 20 2004 - 15:58:40 CDT

Adam,
  It sounds like you essentially want to do an IMD simulation where all
of the atoms are fixed except the selected "entity". That'd behave
like what you're describing, and would be quite fast. You should be
able to do this pretty easily using the AutoIMD plugin, though you may
want to use the latest versions since it has been improved a lot since
1.8.2. Even using the older versions of VMD or without AutoIMD, this
is just a question of setting the majority of your simulated structure
fixed in the simulation, and then you can do as you describe.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 04:18:18PM -0400, Adam Kubach wrote:
> I would like to know if the Phantom haptic device can be used with VMD in
> the following way…
>
> A user selects an arbitrary atom, residue, or fragment of a molecule with a
> Phantom haptic device. Once the entity is selected, the user can tug on it
> and feel the force feedback. The rest of the molecule remains in the same
> location while the user interacts with the selected entity. The desired
> functionality is similar to the move option under the mouse menu, but with
> force feedback.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
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