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From: Justin Gullingsrud (justinrocks_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 29 2005 - 11:25:10 CST

Hi,

"graphics $mol delete all" should work. Unfortunately there's no
command as yet for drawing an arbitrary surface with a list of
triangles; you have to feed the triangles to VMD one at a time. A
trick you could use to animate a surface is to put each animation step
in a different molecule, then use a script to successively show one
molecule at a time.

Cheers,
Justin

On 11/29/05, Mario Valle <mvalle_at_cscs.ch> wrote:
> In a small plugin I'm developing I need to create a different surface for each animation step.
>
> The surfaces are create using a bunch of graphics $mol trinorm ... calls.
> At each animation step I need to delete the surface created in the previous step before
> recreating the new one. Unfortunately this step slows down considerably the animation.
>
> The only method I have found is:
> # delete an existing surface
> set glist [graphics $mol list]
> foreach gitem $glist {graphics $mol delete $gitem}
>
> Is there any more efficient method?
>
> I create the graphics inside the Top molecule. Maybe it is faster to create the graphics
> inside a new molecule and then deleting it at each animation step. Unfortunately using
> this setup I have strange scaling and translation of the resulting surface.
>
> Thanks for your help!
> mario
>
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