Carbon Nanotube Gear Simulations

Animating XYZ Files

The XYZ file format is a dataset format for molecular dynamics simulations. There are a number of programs which can be used to view this dataset format, including RASMol and XMol.

XMol is an X-based molecule viewer and format converter, available from the Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc. XMol can be set up as a helper app with the Netscape browser, so that clicking on the XYZ datasets triggers an animation of their time steps. To enable this on UNIX systems, do the following:

Install XMol on your system.
Insert in your .mime.types file:
```
  chemical/x-xyz  xyz
```

Insert in your .mailcap file:

  chemical/x-xyz; xmol -readFormat xyz %s

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