Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Amorphous SiO2 Fracture

This video demonstrates output of a large scale molecular dynamics computation of 4.7 million atoms, simulating glass fracture over the course of over a nanosecond. Post-processed data consists of 500 frames at 3 GB per frame. We generate approximate charge density volume data to highlight the overall structure. Rendering is performed using Nanovol, a volume raycasting tool for computational chemistry.