Dear Blender Developers, I am writing following the Blender Conference in which, some of you may remember, I made an appeal for help with BioBlender, since unfortunately our group has dissolved, due to end of funding. However, I constantly receive requests from people attempting to use it, meaning that the program is welcome in the community of biologists.
Having more or less understood what means 'open repository', I am prepared to perform the necessary steps. However, I am a total newcomer, and I would greatly appreciate any suggestion. To frame the request, please read the following. BioBlender was initially developed by our group (SciVis), with the contribution of Mike Pan, as a special version of Blender capable of dealing with molecules, which are complex object, composed of many (up to thousands) atoms, each one connected in a specific way to some others. This was a branch of Blender 2.5 (patched, called BioBlender V0.6, available <http://www.bioblender.eu/download/>here) A couple of years ago, we decided to make an AddOn, and developed BioBlender 1.0 (can download <http://www.bioblender.eu/download/>here) That's where the problems are: 1. Proteins with more than few hundreds atoms take forever to build, due to the updating of the dependency graph each time an atom is added. 2. MLP (Molecular lipopohilic potential) cannot be mapped to the mesh, because the vertices are not listed (this I am not sure I perfectly understand). In the meantime, we wanted to add some more features to BioBlender, first of all the capability of importing and handling two molecular objects in an independent way in the same scene. This led to BioBlender 2.0 which does provide some additional features, but still has the same problems of BB 1. We (myself and Davide) are willing to do whatever it takes, as long as my interventions are likely to solve problems, rather than creating ones :) Given my background and preparation, I am not sure how much that will be, but rest assured that i will do my best. Thanks in advance Monica and Davide _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers