RasMol 2.6 is not the current version, and it is not very productive
to work from that as a base, nor does it make sense to drop back
and fix problems in such an old version. The best current release
is RasMol 2.7.2.1. I am working on a final clean up to 2.7.2 that
will be released shortly as 2.7.2.1.1. Then I will incorporate
the next round of improvements into 2.7.3. If there is a problem
with axis labelling, I will be happy to fix it in 2.7.3, but first
we need to know for sure what we want to do. I believe most users
are used to the coordinate system in the manual in which the Y
axis goes down and the X axis run to the right. Is there some
disagreement about that?
-- Herbert
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Herbert J. Bernstein, Professor of Computer Science
Dowling College, Kramer Science Center, KSC 121
Idle Hour Blvd, Oakdale, NY, 11769
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Miguel Howard wrote:
> Herbert said:
>
> > To help get us all on the same page, I have prepared a draft
> > positioning test at:
> >
> > http://arcib.dowling.edu/~BernsteH/postest/
> >
> > I will run rasmol for a variety of platforms (including sgi, mac and
> > windows )through this test later today and see if we have gotten
> > turned around on any of them.
>
> Thanks for posting this. It is helpful.
>
> There were several follow-up messages about this on jmol-users, and you may
> not have been copied on some critical ones.
>
> I believe that the general concensus is that the confusion is caused by
> a labelling error in RasWin (and possibly some older versions of RasMol).
>
> Jan says that RasWin puts the Y label at the *top* of the axis, which
> is actually the negative end.
>
> Nevertheless, the coordinate system *is* right-handed ... it was only a
> labelling issue.
>
> Jan also says that this problem does not exist in RasMol 2.7
>
>
> > In any case it is the intention,
> > as stated in the manual for y to be increasing going down and x
> > to be increasing going to the right.
>
> This was actually the genesis of the discussion on jmol-users ... the fact
> that the +Y axis goes down.
>
> The axis orientation discussion was a prelude to the *real* discussion
> that we need to have about the rotations in RasMol.
>
>
> Miguel
>
>
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