[Jmol-developers] Re: Open-source Chime

[Miguel <mt...@mt...>]

Phillip,

I took a look at your pages and I think they are *excellent*.

This is exactly the kind of educational web site that we want to reach.
And I am *very* glad to see something that is not from the biochemistry
world.

You pages are not dependant upon 'advanced' protein visualization shapes,=

so you can probably move everything over to Jmol very soon.

Several of the Jmol developers are crystalographers, so Jmol has some
specific support for working with unit cells. I think you will be able to=

put them to good use.

We plan to have our first official 'test' release of the Jmol v10 code
within the next couple of weeks.

Miguel

> I'd like to be a beta tester, and an alpha tester too. See the Virtual
> Museum of Minerals and Molecules at
> http://www.soils.wisc.edu/virtual_museum/index.html . We're heavily
> invested in a dying plugin and look forward to open source development
> to rescue us from obsolescence.
>
> Try http://www.soils.wisc.edu/virtual_museum/soil_smectite/index.html t=
o
> see what we're doing...
>
> Phillip Barak, PhD.
> Assoc. Prof., Soil Science, Univ of Wisc.-Madison
>   and Curator, Virtual Museum of Minerals and Molecules
>
> p.s.: any chance of a sneak download of jmol 10?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Miguel <mth=40mth.com>
> Date: Monday, October 20, 2003 3:12 pm
> Subject: Re: Open-source Chime
>
>> > I tried
>> > to embed a jmol applet and open the page with safari to
>> visualize an
>> > rRNA molecule and found that it actually works, but the
>> performance is
>> > far away from chime. It is slower to load and to rotate, and the
>> rendering is not as nice. Is this real or have I messed up with some
>> settings?
>> The graphics engine was completely rewritten for Jmol v10. It is now
>> significantly faster for larger molecules
>>
>> > Will jmol v10 improve these aspects?
>> Yes
>>
>> > And how about the
>> > remaining chime's functions, will they be implemented into jmol?
>> Many RasMol/Chime features are implemented today in Jmol v10.
>>
>> Advanced graphics renderings of secondary protein structures are not.
>>
>> Please send me your rRNA molecule (the one with the performance
>> problems)and I will embed it in a web page so that you can take a
>> look at it.
>>
>>
>> Miguel
>>
>>
>>
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