Re: [Jmol-developers] MD trajectories for 11.7

2008-10-14 Thread Matthew Zwier
Hi Bob,

Thanks for the replies!  Sorry I haven't gotten back to you yet; I was
out of town.

By the way, the talk of these mysterious simulations of mine appears
to be getting ever more murky, albeit in slight increments.  If you're
curious, I'm processing data from simulations as described in Ab
Initio Multiple Spawning: Photochemistry from First Principles Quantum
Molecular Dynamics M. Ben-Nun, J. Quenneville, and T. J. Martinez, J.
Phys. Chem., 104, 5161 (2000).   The implementation is usually MolPro
for the ab initio gradient calculations and AMBER for the classical
propagation, though my application is expected to deal with uniform
HDF5 output from any combination of QM and MM engines that a grad
student has managed to hitch together.

Feel free to take that or leave it, depending on your current state of
curiosity and free time.

Anyway...

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Robert Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 or if you wanted an animation, something like

 var nSec = 0.1
 for (var i = 1; i  10;i = i + 1)
   script inline @{display 1. + i + , 2. + i}
   delay @nSec
 end for


This is basically what I'm doing, except I'm doing it in JavaScript.
I'd prefer to do it all in Jmol, but to do so, I'd need a way to store
some global array data.  Because, in my app, each trajectory may start
at an essentially arbitrary time, I keep an array of which trajectory
frames are available at which times, and which frame number in the
trajectory file each is.

So...let's say there are 3 trajectories involved.  Trajectory 1 starts
at time t=0, trajectory 2 starts at t=50, and trajectory 3 starts at
t=100.  I then wish to provide an animation from t=0 onward, but not
display trajectories 2 and 3 until the appropriate animation frame.
My solution to this problem was to create an array like this:

time   traj 1 frame   traj 2 frame   traj 3 frame
0  1  null   null
10 2  null   null
20 3  null   null
30 4  null   null
40 5  null   null
50 6  1  null
60 7  2  null
70 8  2  null
80 9  4  null
90 10 5  null
10011 6  1
11012 7  2

This means that when it's time for animation frame 0, I execute
display 1.1, and when it's time for frame 5 (t=50), I execute
display 1.6, 2.1 and so on.  The time data is important, too, as I
use it to echo the time for each animation frame.  I store the
population (transparency) data in a different array of similar
construction.  The only way I could figure out to store and access
that data was to store it all as a JavaScript array, and then use a
JavaScript loop to do the custom animation.

I see that Jmol has capacity to load and store per-atom data (the
DATA command), but might there be a way to store this more
globally-scoped table in Jmol somewhere?  I confess, I don't have a
firm grasp of Jmol math yet.

 I do use per-frame transparency, which would break if
 color/transparency information is logically tied to the topology
 rather than the coordinates (the latter being what changes on a
 per-animation-frame basis).  If there could be per-trajectory-frame
 color attributes, it'd be a pretty big help.  The only other helpful
 thing would be more than 8 levels of transparency (though I can't
 imagine more than 20 would matter).

 All you do is make a for/end for loop as above and basically design your own
 animation.

I'm unclear on what you mean here.  Currently, I load everything
(every frame of every applicable trajectory), then loop over each
frame and set its transparency.  This is all done right after the load
(takes forever in the current every-frame-is-a-model implementation),
and the animation is nothing but display ... and delay steps.  Are
you saying to modify the loop to apply the transparency to each frame
right before it is displayed?  Something like

for (var i = 1; i  10;i = i + 1)
 script inline @{select 1. + i + , 2. + i}
 color TRANSLUCENT 0.125
 script inline @{display 1. + i + , 2. + i}
 delay @nSec
end for


 Eventually, my dream is to produce animations not only of the atoms
 but also of molecular orbitals, but I strongly suspect that's too
 computationally- or memory-intensive to do in an interactive
 environment.

 Nah. Actually, you could do this. It would require some initial set up.
 I wonder how slow it would be:

 1) set up your trajectory data.
 2) create the molecular orbitals using Gaussian in terms of a CUBE file for
 each stage along the way.
 3) use Jmol or Jvxl.jar to create JVXL files (200:1 compressed surfaces) of
 those orbitals from the CUBE files.

 That's the slow part. Now load the 

Re: [Jmol-developers] MD trajectories for 11.7

2008-10-14 Thread Robert Hanson
Matt, you are SO in luck.

1) You can define the array data, but it seems to me more appropriate just
to define a starting point for each. Right? Something like this should do
the job:


# Jmol math here

function runAnimation()

frame *
display none

var timeStep = 10 #whatever
var startTimes = array(0, 50,100) #whatever
var endTimes = array(500,550,450) # whatever
var secDelay = 0.5 #whatever


var frameList = array(0,0,0)
var endTime = 0
var time = 0

 for (var i = 1; i = 3; i = i + 1)
   if (time = startTimes[i])
time = startTimes[i]
   endif
   if (endTime = endTimes[i])
endTime = endTimes[i]
   endif
 end for

while(time  endTime)
 var s = 
 for (var i = 1; i = 3; i = i + 1)
if (time = startTimes[i]  time = endTimes[i])
  frameList[i] = frameList[i] + 1
  if (s != )
s = s + ,
  end if
  s = s + i + . + frameList[i]
end if
 end for
 s = frame  + s + ;delay  + secDelay
 script inline @s
 time = time + timeStep
end while

end function

The only way I could figure out to store and access
 that data was to store it all as a JavaScript array, and then use a
 JavaScript loop to do the custom animation.




 I see that Jmol has capacity to load and store per-atom data (the
 DATA command), but might there be a way to store this more
 globally-scoped table in Jmol somewhere?  I confess, I don't have a
 firm grasp of Jmol math yet.


any data -- not just per atom.



 I'm unclear on what you mean here.  Currently, I load everything
 (every frame of every applicable trajectory), then loop over each
 frame and set its transparency.  This is all done right after the load
 (takes forever in the current every-frame-is-a-model implementation),
 and the animation is nothing but display ... and delay steps.  Are
 you saying to modify the loop to apply the transparency to each frame
 right before it is displayed?  Something like


well, in this case what you would do is define the translucency for each
model just before you display it.

That's a really interesting idea.  I don't have CUBE files available,
 nor will I ever for this particular application (I have expansion
 coefficients only), so I'd have to have the additional step of
 calculating the MO value as a function of X,Y,Z for each frame.


Using Jmol you could pre-save the MOs as JVXL files and very quickly load
them in on the fly.





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Re: [Jmol-developers] MD trajectories for 11.7

2008-10-11 Thread Robert Hanson
Matt, I did check this out more carefully, and I see now that there was a
bug in Jmol for appended trajectories. It's fixed, but it's in Jmol 11.7.3,
which has not been released yet. If you are interested in getting a look at
this, take a look at

http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/examples-11/new.htm?topic=1

JAR files for 11.7.3 are in
http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/examples-11/Jmol-11.zip

Bob


On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Robert Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hey, Matt, you might be in luck.

 On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Matthew Zwier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
  At least, I think you can Supposed to  be able to. You are just
 limited
  to one trajectory step from EACH sequence loaded. I can't imagine why
 that
  would take any major amount of time if they are trajectories.

 Yeah, as I said above, they're loaded as independent models, not
 trajectories.  It gets slow when the total number of atoms gets large,
 as I suppose one would expect if there's a loop over all 40,000 atoms
 occurring each animation frame.

  I'm happy to do the coding if anything is necessary there. Doesn't sound
 too
  involved to me. Keep talking

 Sounds like the machinery is there already, and that I just haven't
 kept up with recent development enough to know.  Loading each run as a
 trajectory should do it.


 Right. It's all there. You can't use both the append and the trajectory
 keywords at the same time right now, but in this case you don't need the
 trajectory keyword, so you can do:

 load files u.mdtop FILTER ![WAT],![URE] COORD {0 -1 5}
 mdcrd::prod1.mdcrd  mdcrd::prod2.mdcrd
 load append u.mdtop FILTER ![WAT],![URE] COORD {0 -1 5}
 mdcrd::prod3.mdcrd mdcrd::prod4.mdcrd

 frame *;
 display 1.1,2.1
 delay 0.1
 display 1.2,2.2
 delay 0.1
 display 1.3,2.3
 delay 0.1
 ...


 or if you wanted an animation, something like

 var nSec = 0.1
 for (var i = 1; i  10;i = i + 1)
   script inline @{display 1. + i + , 2. + i}
   delay @nSec
 end for

 I tried this on a simple model (7700 atoms), and it went very smoothly.

 Note that if you add a write command (and you are using the Jmol
 application), then you can make a movie of the overlaid trajectories:

 for (var i = 1; i  10;i = i + 1)
   script inline @{display 1. + i + , 2. + i}
   write image 500 500 @{movie + ( + i)[-3][0] + .jpg}
 end for

 And then use some other software to combine those JPEG stills into an AVI
 file.


 I do use per-frame transparency, which would break if
 color/transparency information is logically tied to the topology
 rather than the coordinates (the latter being what changes on a
 per-animation-frame basis).  If there could be per-trajectory-frame
 color attributes, it'd be a pretty big help.  The only other helpful
 thing would be more than 8 levels of transparency (though I can't
 imagine more than 20 would matter).


 All you do is make a for/end for loop as above and basically design your
 own animation.


 Eventually, my dream is to produce animations not only of the atoms
 but also of molecular orbitals, but I strongly suspect that's too
 computationally- or memory-intensive to do in an interactive
 environment.


 Nah. Actually, you could do this. It would require some initial set up.
 I wonder how slow it would be:

 1) set up your trajectory data.
 2) create the molecular orbitals using Gaussian in terms of a CUBE file for
 each stage along the way.
 3) use Jmol or Jvxl.jar to create JVXL files (200:1 compressed surfaces) of
 those orbitals from the CUBE files.

 That's the slow part. Now load the trajectory data, and as above drive the
 animation, but this time include an isosurface command that loads the
 desired surface from the JVXL files.

 If these are reasonably small molecules, I'll bet the JVXL file will load
 and display almost instantly.

 Might work.


 Bob






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Re: [Jmol-developers] MD trajectories for 11.7

2008-10-09 Thread Robert Hanson
Matt, good to hear this! Comments below.  - Bob

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Matthew Zwier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi all,

 A few days ago, Bob Hanson mentioned that improved support for display
 of MD trajectories is on the docket for 11.7.  I'm interested in
 surveying the lay of the land and possibly helping out with the coding
 for MD trajectory support.  I have a couple questions/thoughts, mostly
 related to what's feasible given the underlying data structures.

 1) Are there plans to support simultaneous display of multiple
 trajectories?


The big issue is memory. Jmol can handle about 120,000 atoms (at least on my
machine) before it chokes. Let's make sure we are using the same language.
Trajectory is a full sequence, Trajectory Step is a single snapshot.
Yes?

So one has to involve some sort of reasonable selectivity here.

The way the file reader works is that any number of models can be loaded
simultaneously. In the case of standard multi-model PDB files, these models
can be read either as totally independent models or as trajectories where
only one step can be displayed at a time, because there are only that many
atoms really created. Changing frames simply changes the coordinates.
(Like the old CHIIME multiple-xyz file business.)




 1a)  If so, I'd be interested in coordinating the animation of
 multiple trajectories according to some global notion of time.  This
 would allow for displaying ensembles of trajectories, each of which
 may start and/or end at a different time.  I've hacked something like
 this together with multi-frame XYZ files and JavaScript, but it's
 prohibitively slow (each call to display 1.10,2.5,3.1... takes
 tenths of seconds on a Core 2 Duo); something internal to the applet
 would be much more efficient.


You mean each of these 1, 2, 3 files are each a full trajectory, and you
want to simultaneously overlay x number of trajectory steps? Is that useful?




 2)  Are Jmol's data structures amenable to something like the above,
 or would it require enough of a re-write that it would cause more
 trouble than it would solve? I've worked with Jmol before (on the
 development side), but I don't have enough experience to answer that
 one.


All depends upon what you really want. Right now you can certainly load
multiple topology files so that, say, 1.1-1.100 are trajectory steps for run
1, and 2.1-2.100 are trajectory steps for run 2. And then you can certainly
display {1.1 or 2.1 or ...}

At least, I think you can Supposed to  be able to. You are just limited
to one trajectory step from EACH sequence loaded. I can't imagine why that
would take any major amount of time if they are trajectories.



 This kind of thing is clearly an edge-case compared to the single
 large trajectory that's so common, but it's something no other
 visualization tool I know of can do (let alone one that can be
 embedded in a web page to monitor a running simulation.)  As I said
 above, I'm willing to help out on it if you all think it would be a
 useful thing to have.


I'm happy to do the coding if anything is necessary there. Doesn't sound too
involved to me. Keep talking



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Re: [Jmol-developers] MD trajectories for 11.7

2008-10-09 Thread Matthew Zwier
Hi Bob,

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Robert Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Matt, good to hear this! Comments below.  - Bob

 1) Are there plans to support simultaneous display of multiple
 trajectories?

 The big issue is memory. Jmol can handle about 120,000 atoms (at least on my
 machine) before it chokes. Let's make sure we are using the same language.
 Trajectory is a full sequence, Trajectory Step is a single snapshot.
 Yes?

Yes.


 So one has to involve some sort of reasonable selectivity here.

 The way the file reader works is that any number of models can be loaded
 simultaneously. In the case of standard multi-model PDB files, these models
 can be read either as totally independent models or as trajectories where
 only one step can be displayed at a time, because there are only that many
 atoms really created. Changing frames simply changes the coordinates.
 (Like the old CHIIME multiple-xyz file business.)

Sounds good.  As of a couple months ago, the online scripting docs
indicated that only one model could be loaded as a trajectory.  So
I've been reading as multiple independent models.

 1a)  If so, I'd be interested in coordinating the animation of
 multiple trajectories according to some global notion of time.  This
 would allow for displaying ensembles of trajectories, each of which
 may start and/or end at a different time.  I've hacked something like
 this together with multi-frame XYZ files and JavaScript, but it's
 prohibitively slow (each call to display 1.10,2.5,3.1... takes
 tenths of seconds on a Core 2 Duo); something internal to the applet
 would be much more efficient.

 You mean each of these 1, 2, 3 files are each a full trajectory, and you
 want to simultaneously overlay x number of trajectory steps? Is that useful?

Correct on all points.  Each of the x steps occur at the same time in
multiple simultaneous trajectories.  It isn't at all useful for people
doing long-time dynamics, but it is useful for simulations involving
an ensemble of trajectories.

In my case, a small ensemble of simultaneously-evolving dynamics
trajectories is used to approximate and propagate the total (nuclear
and electronic) wavefunction of a system whose dynamics are determined
by multiple electronic states (photodissociation reactions, for
instance).  I color each trajectory differently, set the transparency
for the atoms in each trajectory frame according to that frame's
weight in the total wavefunction at that time, and animate.  Watching
the evolution of multiple trajectories simultaneously gives an
intuitive feel for how much of the dynamics is governed by each
electronic state.

 2)  Are Jmol's data structures amenable to something like the above,
 or would it require enough of a re-write that it would cause more
 trouble than it would solve? I've worked with Jmol before (on the
 development side), but I don't have enough experience to answer that
 one.

 All depends upon what you really want. Right now you can certainly load
 multiple topology files so that, say, 1.1-1.100 are trajectory steps for run
 1, and 2.1-2.100 are trajectory steps for run 2. And then you can certainly
 display {1.1 or 2.1 or ...}

 At least, I think you can Supposed to  be able to. You are just limited
 to one trajectory step from EACH sequence loaded. I can't imagine why that
 would take any major amount of time if they are trajectories.

Yeah, as I said above, they're loaded as independent models, not
trajectories.  It gets slow when the total number of atoms gets large,
as I suppose one would expect if there's a loop over all 40,000 atoms
occurring each animation frame.

 I'm happy to do the coding if anything is necessary there. Doesn't sound too
 involved to me. Keep talking

Sounds like the machinery is there already, and that I just haven't
kept up with recent development enough to know.  Loading each run as a
trajectory should do it.

I do use per-frame transparency, which would break if
color/transparency information is logically tied to the topology
rather than the coordinates (the latter being what changes on a
per-animation-frame basis).  If there could be per-trajectory-frame
color attributes, it'd be a pretty big help.  The only other helpful
thing would be more than 8 levels of transparency (though I can't
imagine more than 20 would matter).

Eventually, my dream is to produce animations not only of the atoms
but also of molecular orbitals, but I strongly suspect that's too
computationally- or memory-intensive to do in an interactive
environment.

Thanks for the reply and discussion!
Cheers,
Matt Z.

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Re: [Jmol-developers] MD trajectories for 11.7

2008-10-09 Thread Robert Hanson
Hey, Matt, you might be in luck.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Matthew Zwier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
  At least, I think you can Supposed to  be able to. You are just
 limited
  to one trajectory step from EACH sequence loaded. I can't imagine why
 that
  would take any major amount of time if they are trajectories.

 Yeah, as I said above, they're loaded as independent models, not
 trajectories.  It gets slow when the total number of atoms gets large,
 as I suppose one would expect if there's a loop over all 40,000 atoms
 occurring each animation frame.

  I'm happy to do the coding if anything is necessary there. Doesn't sound
 too
  involved to me. Keep talking

 Sounds like the machinery is there already, and that I just haven't
 kept up with recent development enough to know.  Loading each run as a
 trajectory should do it.


Right. It's all there. You can't use both the append and the trajectory
keywords at the same time right now, but in this case you don't need the
trajectory keyword, so you can do:

load files u.mdtop FILTER ![WAT],![URE] COORD {0 -1 5}
mdcrd::prod1.mdcrd  mdcrd::prod2.mdcrd
load append u.mdtop FILTER ![WAT],![URE] COORD {0 -1 5}
mdcrd::prod3.mdcrd mdcrd::prod4.mdcrd

frame *;
display 1.1,2.1
delay 0.1
display 1.2,2.2
delay 0.1
display 1.3,2.3
delay 0.1
...


or if you wanted an animation, something like

var nSec = 0.1
for (var i = 1; i  10;i = i + 1)
  script inline @{display 1. + i + , 2. + i}
  delay @nSec
end for

I tried this on a simple model (7700 atoms), and it went very smoothly.

Note that if you add a write command (and you are using the Jmol
application), then you can make a movie of the overlaid trajectories:

for (var i = 1; i  10;i = i + 1)
  script inline @{display 1. + i + , 2. + i}
  write image 500 500 @{movie + ( + i)[-3][0] + .jpg}
end for

And then use some other software to combine those JPEG stills into an AVI
file.


 I do use per-frame transparency, which would break if
 color/transparency information is logically tied to the topology
 rather than the coordinates (the latter being what changes on a
 per-animation-frame basis).  If there could be per-trajectory-frame
 color attributes, it'd be a pretty big help.  The only other helpful
 thing would be more than 8 levels of transparency (though I can't
 imagine more than 20 would matter).


All you do is make a for/end for loop as above and basically design your own
animation.


Eventually, my dream is to produce animations not only of the atoms
 but also of molecular orbitals, but I strongly suspect that's too
 computationally- or memory-intensive to do in an interactive
 environment.


Nah. Actually, you could do this. It would require some initial set up.
I wonder how slow it would be:

1) set up your trajectory data.
2) create the molecular orbitals using Gaussian in terms of a CUBE file for
each stage along the way.
3) use Jmol or Jvxl.jar to create JVXL files (200:1 compressed surfaces) of
those orbitals from the CUBE files.

That's the slow part. Now load the trajectory data, and as above drive the
animation, but this time include an isosurface command that loads the
desired surface from the JVXL files.

If these are reasonably small molecules, I'll bet the JVXL file will load
and display almost instantly.

Might work.


Bob






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[Jmol-developers] MD trajectories for 11.7

2008-10-08 Thread Matthew Zwier
Hi all,

A few days ago, Bob Hanson mentioned that improved support for display
of MD trajectories is on the docket for 11.7.  I'm interested in
surveying the lay of the land and possibly helping out with the coding
for MD trajectory support.  I have a couple questions/thoughts, mostly
related to what's feasible given the underlying data structures.

1) Are there plans to support simultaneous display of multiple trajectories?

1a)  If so, I'd be interested in coordinating the animation of
multiple trajectories according to some global notion of time.  This
would allow for displaying ensembles of trajectories, each of which
may start and/or end at a different time.  I've hacked something like
this together with multi-frame XYZ files and JavaScript, but it's
prohibitively slow (each call to display 1.10,2.5,3.1... takes
tenths of seconds on a Core 2 Duo); something internal to the applet
would be much more efficient.

2)  Are Jmol's data structures amenable to something like the above,
or would it require enough of a re-write that it would cause more
trouble than it would solve? I've worked with Jmol before (on the
development side), but I don't have enough experience to answer that
one.

This kind of thing is clearly an edge-case compared to the single
large trajectory that's so common, but it's something no other
visualization tool I know of can do (let alone one that can be
embedded in a web page to monitor a running simulation.)  As I said
above, I'm willing to help out on it if you all think it would be a
useful thing to have.

Cheers,
Matt Zwier

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