Are there any non-biological lammps users that use VMD for visualization?
I ask because according to the VMD website it seems that this tool is specifically made for biological systems, and not for materials MD studies.
very respectfully,
Are there any non-biological lammps users that use VMD for visualization?
there are *lots* of them. quite a few features have been
added to VMD to improve the support for non-bio stuff.
you can count on people like me to make sure that this
will be getting even better over time.
thanks to its scripting capabilities, you can do pretty amazing
stuff with a little bit of experience.
there is a long list of planned improvements that will be
particularly useful to materials science applications. one
just has to accept the fact that these things are not top
priorities and that features only get implemented that do
not affect the performance critical common code paths,
unless there is a very, _very_ good reason for it.
I ask because according to the VMD website it seems that this tool is
specifically made for biological systems, and not for materials MD studies.
it is made by people in a biophysical and biochemical group,
so there is a preference for that, but that doesn't exclude other
uses. some of the existing features don't apply and some of
the heuristics are not working well (or at all), but that still makes
it one of the most flexible and customizable analysis and
visualization tools.
cheers,
axel.