More on Using mesoScale probes

Figure 1: Atoms coloured according to the lowest vibrational eigenvalues of mesoscale regions of various radii (given by the 'size') centred at themselves. Note the sharp transition in pictures of size 6 & greater.

How I generated these plots:
For system 2X-triple I took a region of radius = 20.0, at each atom belonging to this region a mesoscale region (of radius indicated next to each picture) was centered.
For each mesoscale region I plotted the lowest vibrational eigenvalue on the atom which was its centre.
NOTE: the hessian is negative-definite so more negative eigenvalue means more stable.
Figure 2: Lowest eigenmodes of mesoscale regions of radius 8.0 with centers displaced parallel to the critical plane with respect to the center of the defect core. The sense of arrows is arbitrary.