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Visualize LAMMPS snapshots
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LAMMPS itself does not do visualization, but snapshots from LAMMPS
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simulations can be visualized (and analyzed) in a variety of ways.
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Mention dump image and dump movie.
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LAMMPS snapshots are created by the :doc:`dump <dump>` command which can
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create files in several formats. The native LAMMPS dump format is a
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text file (see "dump atom" or "dump custom") which can be visualized
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by several popular visualization tools. The :doc:`dump image <dump_image>` and :doc:`dump movie <dump_image>` styles can
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output internally rendered images and convert a sequence of them to a
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movie during the MD run. Several programs included with LAMMPS as
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auxiliary tools can convert between LAMMPS format files and other
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formats. See the :doc:`Tools <Tools>` page for details.
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A Python-based toolkit distributed by our group can read native LAMMPS
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dump files, including custom dump files with additional columns of
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user-specified atom information, and convert them to various formats
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or pipe them into visualization software directly. See the `Pizza.py WWW site <pizza_>`_ for details. Specifically, Pizza.py can convert
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LAMMPS dump files into PDB, XYZ, `EnSight <ensight_>`_, and VTK formats.
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Pizza.py can pipe LAMMPS dump files directly into the Raster3d and
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RasMol visualization programs. Pizza.py has tools that do interactive
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3d OpenGL visualization and one that creates SVG images of dump file
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snapshots.
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.. _pizza: https://lammps.github.io/pizza
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.. _ensight: https://www.ansys.com/products/fluids/ansys-ensight
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.. _atomeye: http://li.mit.edu/Archive/Graphics/A/
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