Re: [ESPResSo-users] Fwd: VMD

[Owen Hickey]

I would suggest trying writevtk to visualize your trajectories. These
files work with paraview instead of vmd, which I personally
significantly easier to use than vmd.

Owen

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Florian Weik
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Nairhita Samanta <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [ESPResSo-users] VMD
> To: Florian Weik <address@hidden>
>
>
> Hi Florian,
>                  Thank you for your reply.
>
>
> But, the problem is even after I installed vmd in the server I am fetting
> this follwing error while running "harmonic-oscillator.tcl" from Espresso
> samples.
> ERROR) Unable to ascertain relative endianness of remote machine
> Unable to connect to host 127.0.0.1 on port 10001
> vmd >
>
> Regards,
> Nairhita
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Florian Weik <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> you can write the configurations/structure to files with either
>> writevtf/writevcf or the writepdb commands. Bothe filetypes are understood
>> by vmd
>> and can be viewed on a different machien. Please look at the relevant
>> parts of the User's guide about their syntax.
>> If you wan't to have true online visualization then it's much easier if
>> VMD runs on the same simulation otherwise. While it is not technically
>> impossible to have them on different machines this is not straight forward
>> and not recommended for new users nor supported by us.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Florian
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Nairhita Samanta <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello all!
>>>               As I am a completely new user and trying to run the sample
>>> files came with Espresso. I just wanted to know is it necessary to have vmd
>>> installed in the same system (as I have installed Espresso in our server)
>>> where I am running Espresso. Or can I have the visual output files
>>> separately which I can open in a lab pc.
>>>
>>> Thanks and regards,
>>> Nairhita Samanta
>>> Ph,D student
>>> IIT Bombay, Mumbai
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Florian Weik, Dipl.-Phys.,
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> Florian Weik, Dipl.-Phys.,
> Institut für Computerphysik, Allmandring 3, D-70569 Stuttgart
> Phone: +49-711-685-67703
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> 0562 F11D
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