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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2006 - 16:07:38 CDT

Going a step further, if people have a need for some of these
additions to run very fast, and they'd get used by a lot of
people's analysis scripts/plugins/etc, I'm willing to consider
creating new low-level drawing commands in VMD to boost performance
if necessary...

  John

On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:59:13PM +0200, Jan Saam wrote:
> Hi Axel,
>
> Good idea!
> Not checking what you have collected already I'm sending a file
> containing 2 or 3 such commands.
>
> Grüße aus der Heimat,
> Jan
>
> Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
> > hi everybody,
> >
> > as many of you might know, the 'draw' command in VMD can be extended via
> > providing procedures of the name vmd_draw_XXX, which would be turned into
> > a draw XXX command. the general idea is to provide an option to
> > overide the
> > internal graphics command and intergrate compound objects built from the
> > povided primitives. there is one example in the user's guide and i've
> > started
> > building some more, while at the same time making them as similar as
> > possible
> > to the internal graphics commands (and thus the default draw commands).
> > the result is currently at:
> > http://biocore.ks.uiuc.edu/biocore/biofs/VMD%20(Public)/src/rpm/vmd_draw_lib.tcl
> >
> > and can be used by copying it into $VMDDIR/scripts/init.d/ or using the
> > contributed rpm(s).
> >
> > i'm currently looking for additional implementations of those kind of
> > compound
> > draw objects, so that i know what is used and needed and that we can have
> > a reliable and consistent library of those scripts that could be
> > shipped with
> > vmd at some point in time and that script or plugin writer can depend on
> > (and thus do not have to reinvent that wheel over and over again).
> > don't worry, if your draw extension is not written as elaborately as the
> > ones provided in the library so far, i'm more interested to see what
> > other
> > people want/need and some kind of prototype implementation.
> >
> > best regards,
> > axel.
> >
>
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