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From: HeeSung Choi (hschoi07_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 12 2009 - 14:13:42 CDT

Dear John Stone,

Thank you for your explanation.
Regards,
HeeSung Choi

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:17 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi, "step" is used to decrease the resolution of the resulting surface in
> cases where one views a very high resolution volumetric dataset that's
> so big it overwhelms their graphics card... The "size" parameter is
> used when rendering isosurfaces as lines.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:04:01PM -0500, HeeSung Choi wrote:
> > Dear VMD users,
> >
> > Whn I plot charge density using VMD and vasp plugin, I choose VASP_CHGCAR
> as
> > afile tipe, and open the Graphical Representation window. Then I can see
> > some factors in that window. My question is what "Step" and "Size" in
> > Graphical Representations means.
> > I just use those valuses are "1". But I am not sure these values are
> > reasonable or not.
> > Please let me know the meaning of "Step" and "Size".
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Regards,
> > HeeSung Choi
>
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