First I've heard of it, though the last thing Warren and I were working on before his unfortunate demise last fall was exactly this. We were not optimistic that a general solution could be had. I hope they don't just try to do this totally on their own -- it requires some substantial understanding of the underlying principles of the programs -- which are considerably different. Warren and I were amazed at how two different approaches to a problem could be SO different fundamentally. (Add VMD....) The main issue was that the people who really get into Pymol are often looking for the next cover of Nature (and don't realize that Jmol + POV-Ray options exist) or are working with its plug-in capability.
They are not trying to actually communicate using 3D models the way Jmol users are. Or, to put it another way, there's not much of a common set of functionality here to work from. The basics are easy to replicate; the fine points are nearly impossible. But they certainly have my support. It's a noble goal. Bob 2010/6/1 Angel Herráez <[email protected]> > I don't use Pymol, but that doesn't sound bad -as long as it is not > difficult to implement. > > By the way, I've recently known about an initiative to set a system > that translates between script languages: Pymol, Rasmol, Jmol are the > first targets. The idea is that you can use the scripting language > that you know in the other programs, and it will be converted. > > http://sbevsl.sourceforge.net/ > https://sourceforge.net/projects/sbevsl/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users > -- Robert M. Hanson Professor of Chemistry St. Olaf College 1520 St. Olaf Ave. Northfield, MN 55057 http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr phone: 507-786-3107 If nature does not answer first what we want, it is better to take what answer we get. -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
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