I definitely think this is a great idea. Personally, I'm a fan of Twirlymol
(https://github.com/baoilleach/twirlymol) but I think 2D depiction is also
really important here. Does iPython support SVG rendering?
-Geoff
> From: Patrick Fuller <notificati...@github.com>
> Subject: [openbabel] Interactive 3D IPython Rendering (#30)
> Date: September 29, 2013 7:02:55 PM EDT
>
> As far as I know, the only cheminformatics library with IPython notebook
> support is RDKit, which renders its objects as 2D pngs. Rather than copying
> that, I thought we could try to one-up it :-)
>
> Right now, this PR is a very rough implementation of interactive 3D
> rendering. It uses three.js and this drawer I made. To use, clone my fork and
> make sure that openbabel/scripts/python/pybel is in the same directory as
> pybel.py.
>
> I want to gauge interest on functionality like this before cleaning up my
> code. Does anyone think this is a good idea? Does anyone want to help?
>
> Example:
>
>
>
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