At 12/11/07, you wrote: >It will have to be considerably more than that, and for this sort of >very specific set, I have to be convinced that what we would get would >be a natural expectation.
In Chime, it works very intuitively. For example, in slide 5 here http://tinyurl.com/2fy7ol rotate/zoom the top molecule and the bottom follows. Then rotate/zoom the bottom (which is not a synch sender) and it moves independently. Now, again, rotate/zoom the top, and the bottom follows in a relative manner. (Try this in Firefox in Windows. If you don't have Chime installed, just copy the single file npchime.dll into the folder c:\program files\mozilla firefox\plugins and restart Firefox. You can get the dll file here: http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/beta/installers/ ) You can see that if the molecules were not aligned at the outset, one can align them approximately by hand, then synch them for a satisfying result. >You're somehow going to have to define >starting points, save orientations, take differences in >rotations/translations/zoom, etc; Yes, it seems to me that with syncRelative on, when sync goes on, each Jmol needs to take note of the current angles, translations, and zoom. Then it needs to send commands to the other Jmols that produce relative movements, not absolute ones. >apply them independently of the user's >application of mouse movements on the target frame.... I'm not clear what you mean here. The mouse would be doing things in only one Jmol at a time. With "sync * on" whatever Jmol is being moused would send to the others. > Well, I guess I'm >just saying it isn't going to happen soon. We do have a workaround: we can align the two molecules, and load the aligned pair into the Jmols. Alignment in Swiss-PDBViewer is quite easy. This would not be good for a Protein Explorer/Comparator like tool, where one wants to be able to load any two PDB files directly from the Protein Data Bank and sync them, but it will suffice for the few cases likely to come up in tutorials. -Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
