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From: Oliver Beckstein (orbeckst_at_jhmi.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2007 - 16:05:02 CST

Hello John,

> I can make you special builds with larger max bond counts.

I appreciate this very much.

> Will 30 be adequate? I can make it any number you like
> up to 255, but the larger the number the more memory VMD will use
> on a per-atom basis.

To be on the safe side let's choose 64 – more are really not going to
come up in my problems.

Thank you,
Oliver

>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 02:37:42PM -0500, Oliver Beckstein wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> is there a way to obtain binaries for Mac OS X and Linux i686 that
>> have
>> MAXATOMBONDS increased to, say, 30? I am (ab)using VMD for graph
>> plotting and some of my nodes simply don't behave like atoms although
>> I'd like to keep using atom-like representations instead of drawing
>> bonds as graphics objects because it makes it so much easier to change
>> colors, materials etc.
>>
>> As I understand it, MAXATOMBONDS is defined to be 12 in Atom.h:
>> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/doxygen/Atom_8h.html
>>
>> I don't have the VMD source and as I understand it, it can be a bit
>> complicated compiling it, though I'd give it a shot if this is too
>> much
>> work for the developers (which I would certainly understand).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Oliver
>>
>> --
>> Oliver Beckstein * orbeckst_at_jhmi.edu
>>
>> Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
>> Dept. of Physiology, Biophysics 206
>> 725 N. Wolfe St
>> Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
>>
>> Tel.: +1 (410) 614-4435
>
> --
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> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
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>
> 

--
Oliver Beckstein * orbeckst_at_jhmi.edu
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
Dept. of Physiology, Biophysics 206
725 N. Wolfe St
Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Tel.: +1 (410) 614-4435