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University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and TechnologyTheoretical and Computational Biophysics GroupComputational Biophysics WorkshopVMD Images and MoviesTutorialAlek AksimentievJohn StoneDavid WellsMarcos SotomayorNovember 2006A current version of this tutorial is available athttp://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Training/Tutorials/Join the tutorial-l@ks.uiuc.edu mailing list for additional help.CONTENTS 2Contents1 Working with Still Frames 51.1 Graphical Representation Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.2 Colors and Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.3 Depth Perception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.4 Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.5 Volumetric Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.6 Clipping Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151.7 Visualizing Large Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Working With Trajectories 202.1 Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202.2 Advanced Trajectory Topic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222.3 Making Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28CONTENTS 3IntroductionThis tutorial is designed to give users of VMD an introduction to advancedtechniques for making custom images and movies. The tutorial assumes thatyou already have a working ...