October 2017

Stream line your configuration plotting -- Scripting in VMD (I)

Hello world!

I want to show how to write script in VMD to stream line your visulization. VMD is a visualization software developed in UIUC. The default setting of VMD, compared to other softwares like VESTA, Atomeye, Avogadro, is quite 1990s. But it has a huge potential. After you know it well, you can easily fake it as any other visualization software :P

VMD is a fancy machine that every tiny part can be tuned. The best feature is definitely scripting interface. Most of the time I work with a huge batch of simulation with the same materials, usually the same...

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VMD cheat sheet

Here are some common operation that I use in the software vmd for visulization

 

Compile Tachyon with libpng in LINUX/macos for VMD rendering

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This post is inspired by a blog from https://ourphysics.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_make_images_for_publication_using_VMD. They mentioned that one cannot render good quality png figure with the default VMD tachyon. However, they didn't give a fool-proof tutorial about the compilation. So I decided to write down what I did for the recompilation.

Step 1. Download the source code and untar it

wget http://jedi.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/raytracer/files/...
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