[gmx-users] g_dist producing inconsistent values

[David van der Spoel]

chris.neale at utoronto.ca wrote:
>> I've since found the source of my problem - the program was measuring 
>> the (marginally shorter) distance across the PBC boundary, rather than 
>> the distance
>> within the box.  Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to turn 
>> PBC images off (correct me if I'm wrong?), so I guess I'm going to do 
>> some jiggerypokery with the data and some math.
> 
Distance larger than half a box size are ill-defined anyway in a PBC 
simulation. In some special cases you can do this, for instance within a 
protein it would work. I've implemented -nopbc options in some programs 
but not in g_dist yet. Please put it on the developer wishlist. on the wiki.


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