Eric, I've added a "forced refresh" each frame so that Jmol does not 
skip frames.

Eric Martz wrote:

> Animations of protein conformational changes are one of the most 
> impressive and informative modes of molecular visualization 
> (http://morphs.proteinexplorer.org ). Unfortunately, I think Jmol 
> applet's maximum speed of animation (frame display rate) is too slow 
> to convey motion effectively except for smaller proteins with few 
> total frames. This situation is dissuading me from implementing 
> animations of the latest structural discoveries, and animation 
> authoring tools for Jmol in Protein Explorer.
>
> There are two problems for which I am advocating improvements in the 
> Jmol applet.
>
> 1. First, when the frames per second (fps) requested of Jmol is more 
> than it can achieve (with "anim mode palindrome 0.01 0.01"), it skips 
> frames. We need a setting to insist that Jmol show all frames, even 
> when it cannot achieve the requested fps.
>
> 2. Second, the maximum fps of which Jmol is capable is too slow. It is 
> several fold slower than the maximum of which Chime is capable, and 
> that was already a bit too slow for larger proteins with sets of 15-20 
> frames.



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