[Jmol-users] Surfaces - Chime performance

[Miguel <mi...@jm...>]

I am working on adding support for surfaces into Jmol.

The work is at an early stage, and it will take some time (months) to
complete.

Good news -- I am quite pleased with the rendering quality of the initial=

tests.

Not-so-good news -- I am somewhat concerned about performance and memory
consumption. I suspected that this would be a problem, but I am now facin=
g
it directly.

Since Chime is the baseline for comparison ...

I need to get a better handle on Chime's surface generation performance,
memory footprint, and rendering performance.

Q: Does anyone have any metrics/measurments for this type of data?

Q: How big a molecule can one reasonbly manipulate in Chime with the
Surface turned on?



Miguel