As one of the developers at the interface of this work with SAGE I guess I should comment.
I agree that I would not like take away from the development of Jmol for 3-D chemical visualization. However, I do not think that this work is unrelated for a number of reasons: 1) I got involved because I use Jmol primarily in my teaching for standard molecular visualization and in SAGE for mathematical function visualization. So, at least in my case, improving Jmol in SAGE is useful to a chemist. 2) Better handling of function graphing in 3-D and axis labeling would allow display of potential energy surfaces generated from ab initio calculations. At present one needs to make the plots in specialized software and it is not easy to have a live plot on the Web. 3) As Bob has already said the changes so far have also benefited the display of more standard stuff such a molecular orbitals, protein pockets and such. 4) If there are things you want developed that we are not getting to, why not lend a hand? Jmol is open source, after all. Jonathan On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:50 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:35:52 -0500 > From: rgb <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Jmol-users] what is Jmol for? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > It detracts from the time devoted to the development of Jmol more than > anything else. I don't disagree that some things might be of interest > down the road but given the limited development resources I think they > should be focused on the functionality related to the display of small > and large molecules and the user interface of that use. If others from > Sage or another environment want to build on Jmol's display capability > then that is great and could be encouraged. Jmol is pretty modular and > incorporating new functionality in some optional modules shouldn't > be a > problem. > > Rich Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow Chemistry Department [email protected] UW-Oshkosh Office:920-424-1326 800 Algoma Boulevard FAX:920-424-2042 Oshkosh, WI 54901 http://www.uwosh.edu/facstaff/gutow ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
