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Changes display defaults

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# Changes display defaults
display resize 600 600
axes location off
display projection orthographic 
color Display Background white
color Name {L} silver

Set the unitcell parameters

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pbc set {10 10 10} -all

This will set the unit cell side length to 10 in all frames.

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pbc get

Get the unitcell parameters.

Control the line and color of pbc box.

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pbc box
pbc box -width 2
pbc box -color black -width 1

Background color

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color Display {Background} white

Get the matrix the the current view

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set current_view [molinfo top get {center_matrix rotate_matrix scale_matrix}]

set the center matrix, rotate matrix, and scale matrix (method1)

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set center_matrix {{1 0 0 -53.7869} {0 1 0 -55.8598} {0 0 1 -56.52} {0 0 0 1}}
set rotate_matrix  {{1 0 0 0} {0 1 0 0} {0 0 1 0} {0 0 0 1}}
set scale_matrix {{0.0123114 0 0 0} {0 0.0123114 0 0} {0 0 0.0123114 0} {0 0 0 1}}
set current_view [list $center_matrix $rotate_matrix $scale_matrix]

set the center matrix, rotate matrix, and scale matrix (method2)

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set current_view [list {{1 0 0 -53.7869} {0 1 0 -55.8598} {0 0 1 -56.52} {0 0 0 1}} {{1 0 0 0} {0 1 0 0} {0 0 1 0} {0 0 0 1}} {{0.0123114 0 0 0} {0 0.0123114 0 0} {0 0 0.0123114 0} {0 0 0 1}}]

display the view by the setting

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molinfo top set {center_matrix rotate_matrix scale_matrix} $current_view

rotate view

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rotate x by 90

Show the pbc box

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pbc box -color black -width 5

Atoms (residues) select

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same residue as (within 3 of resid 9250)

same residue as (within 3 of resname LIion)

select atoms and write to pdb file

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set test [atomselect top {same residue as (within 11 of resid 8410)}]

atomselect0 writepdb a.pdb

Export to figures (render)

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render Tachyon tmp.dat

"/Applications/VMD\ 1.9.4a57-x86_64-Rev12.app/Contents/vmd/tachyon_MACOSXX86_64" tmp.dat -format PNG -res 2048 2048 -o /Users/mark/Desktop/Li2S6/DME1.png

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