Hello, I have a "data" file that contains only the locations:
Npoints: 1800 0.000000000000000 0.000000000000000 0.000000000000000 -0.707106781186595 -0.707106781186595 0.000000000000000 [snip: 1798 more such lines] These are the x-y-z coordinates of the my crystal atoms and I want to use DX to visualize their locations. What I want to do is: 1) read in the locations of the atoms from this file 2) attach in my VPE window a sphere with certain radius to each point 3) visualize that However, when I do: file = /home/lahaye/mycrystal.dat points = marker "Npoints: " field = locations header = lines 1 structure = 3-vector type = float end the Import-module complains that there's no data in the file. I do not want to add dummy-data to the file, since this file is generated by another package and life would be much easier if DX is able to read that output directly. I found out that I can "fake" the z-coordinate as "data": file = /home/lahaye/mycrystal.dat points = marker "Npoints: " field = locations, z header = lines 1 structure = 2-vector, scalar type = float, float end But then: how do I merge (x, y) + "data" => (x,y,z) Is there a way to overcome this problem ? Thanks for help and advice! Rob.
