Class Scene

VMD scene

A VMD scene is a collection of graphics objects that can be loaded into VMD.

Instance Methods

VMDObject

__getitem__(self, item)
Returns: the graphics object at the index position

__init__(self, objects=None, **options)

int

__len__(self)
Returns: the number of graphics objects in the scene

addObject(self, object)

view(self, *args)
Start VMD and load the scene

writeToFile(self, filename, delete=False)
Write the scene to a VMD script file

Method Details

Parameters:

the graphics object at the index position

Parameters:

objects (list or NoneType) - a list of graphics objects, or None for an empty scene
options - options as keyword arguments
scale (positive number) - a scale factor applied to all coordinates of geometrical objects except for molecule objects, which cannot be scaled

Parameters:

Start VMD and load the scene

Parameters:

Write the scene to a VMD script file

Parameters:

filename (str) - the name of the script
delete (bool) - flag that indicates whether the script should delete itself as its last action; used for temporary files