On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Paul M. Grant wrote: PG> I realize charge-density.dat is stored in iotk binary format and the reasons PG> why. But is there any documentation illuminating the layout of the file or PG> how to access the data stored therein? I've poked around in the source code PG> of chden and electrons but it's not terribly obvious how they load the data, PG> which I assume is a necessary task somewhere in these two routines.at least PG> not in four or five minutes of manual scanning. All I really want to do is PG> write a (hopefully small) Fortran routine to load data from PG> charge-density.dat into a four (x, y, z, rho) by number-of-points array. PG> Maybe there's even an iotk subroutine someone has laying around to do just PG> that.
paul, there is an example code, qexml.f90 (check out qexml_write/read_rho()) that should demonstrate how to read iotk files. not sure whether it still works, though. it has not been touched in a while. if you are more concerned about a fast result rather than performance, why don't you use pp.x to convert it into (gaussian) .cube format, which is plain text and easier to read into fortran. the way it is usually read is that you just have one 3-dim array, with the grid vector index positions as the indices. if you give me a hint about what exactly you're after, perhaps i can give you a more specific suggestion. PG> BTW, I assume the units are electrons/cubic-au as a function of x, y, z? right, at least that is what i remember, summing over the indivdual rho entries and multiplying with the volume of a single voxel should yield the total number of electrons. cheers, axel. PG> PG> Best to all, -Paul PG> PG> Paul M. Grant, PhD PG> Principal, W2AGZ Technologies PG> Visiting Scholar, Applied Physics, Stanford (2005-2008) PG> EPRI Science Fellow (Retired) PG> IBM Research Staff Member Emeritus PG> w2agz at pacbell.net PG> http://www.w2agz.com <http://www.w2agz.com/> PG> PG> PG> PG> PG> -- ======================================================================= Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey at cmm.chem.upenn.edu http://www.cmm.upenn.edu Center for Molecular Modeling -- University of Pennsylvania Department of Chemistry, 231 S.34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323 tel: 1-215-898-1582, fax: 1-215-573-6233, office-tel: 1-215-898-5425 ======================================================================= If you make something idiot-proof, the universe creates a better idiot.
