[Jmol-developers] Re: Close Menu item

[E.L. W. (Egon) <eg...@sc...>]

On Thursday 12 June 2003 22:36, Carl Resnikoff wrote:
> OK, here are the changes for doing a window close from the menu.
> I haven't digested the rest of your suggestions for new tasks yet.
> I would say it would be fun to get into some chemistry (I figure any
> nontrivial project will
> have enough software challenges to keep me interested).

Most of the chemistry is, or should be, in the CDK... Are you yet subscribed 
to the developers lists of CDK and Jmol? If not, please do so...

I would like to propose to work on something which is much requested:
a 3D structure generator...
Such an algorithm creates a 3D model of a molecule based on the molecular 
connectivity alone. It does so by placing atoms such that it and the 
neighbouring atoms make expected angles and distances. Special things happen
when ring systems (especially the smaller, strained one) are to be dealt with.
Anyway, it is a big job, but will get you familiar with molecular chemistry.

The source needs to go into CDK (and will be used by Jmol) in the
org.openscience.cdk.layout package, possibly in a sub package...

Does this sound like something you would like to work on?

BTW, do you also made a SF account? I will add you as a developer to both 
projects then...

Egon