VTST NEB to dimer/Lanczos seeds, masked force projection and image alignment.
Actual Al100 NEB data reused, no new VASP. module load ase/3.29.0 vtstscripts/1040; bash read.sh; bash plot.sh. Optional bash run.sh; bash read.sh work-new analysis-new; bash plot.sh analysis-new.
Preparation scripts copy original INCAR unchanged: select intended saddle method and remove NEB-specific tags before using seeds in new VASP jobs. Lanczos personal helper repairs explicit image index, without changing public installation.
nebfreeze shifts every atom of each image to align selected atom13, then marks that atom fixed; it does not recompute energies or optimize a constrained path. Copy-only work directories prevent changing the source NEB.
