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[Selection Panel]

The animation panel controls raster file and animated output. When all options are chosen, the GO button is selected and images are sent either to files, film recorders, or video systems. The SAVE button saves the options. That is the same options will appear the next time the animation panel is selected. Pushing the QUIT button means that the previous animation settings will not Values for the options on the left hand side of the panel are entered from the keyboard. They are:

  • STEP: The number of coordinate steps taken for each animation frame (default 1)

  • CONFIG: Go to the optimization/irc/dynamics step indicated. This takes effect when the GO button is pressed.

  • PCONFIG: Go to a particular step in PLAYBACK node (still work in progress). It takes effect when the GO button is pressed.

  • FRAMES: The number of steps

  • QUEUE: A list of queues for printing files. An lpr queue name can be entered or chosen from a menu which is displayed when the button to the left is pressed. This is site dependent.


  • FILENAME: The file name suffix of the generated raster files. NOTE: On SGI's, files are in the "rgb" format, while on all other platforms, they are in "xwd" format.


    • The INCREMENT values in the middle of the panel control how the system is transformed for each animated frame. For example, entering a value of "3" in the "Y ROT" field means that the system will rotate 3 degrees each frame. By selecting an object from the popup menu to the right of the "INCREMENT" label, the object that the transformations can be applied to may be selected (individual molecules or the entire system).



    The options on the right side of the animation panel control what type of output is created. They are:

  • NO OUTPUT animate, but do not output to any device nor dump files
  • FILE ONLY animate and dump files, but do not output to any device
  • LPR QUEUE send dumped files to an lpr queue
  • VRML ON/OFF Generate/do not Generate a VRML 2.0 file for each step that can be viewed with either Netscape or Internet Explorer with the approriate plugin. The user is prompted for a file name on each step.
  • A VRML ON/OFF : Generate/do not Generate an animated VRML file
  • C VRML ON/OFF : Generate/do not Generate a controlled VRML file (where the user can change the display using buttons placed within the VRML "world". This works only on platforms that support VRMLSCRIPT.
  • NTSC ON/OFF When dumping a raster image file Generate/do not generate a file with NTSC resolution (640x480 pixels). The default is the full screen.