Jonathan wrote: > Bug fixes and code changes are documented with some more detail in the > file jmol.properties that can be found in the source code in the > directory src/org/jmol/viewer. > > We try pretty hard not to change historical behavior unless it is > determined to be erroneous, so new versions usually work as drop-in > replacements for older versions, unless you are relying on erroneous > behavior. An example I encountered was that I was depending on Jmol > loading molecular orbitals and associating them with the wrong > molecular structure from a particular data file type. When that was > fixed, I had to rewrite my web page that used those orbitals.
Thanks for your input! > There are a number of things I would like to see about the way Jmol > shows up in SAGE. It would be nice to have some buttons next to the > window that do things like turn on spinning and allow some zoom > facility (ideally smart enough to recalculate if necessary). These > wouldn't be too hard to do, but I don't really understand how (or > where) in the notebook code the Jmol stuff is fed to the web browser. > After the notebook is separated out, if somebody can give me some > direction, I'd be willing to look at the generation of the <div> that > contains Jmol. I tried messing with this briefly, trying to up the memory allocated so that I could get more than 11 plots on a screen. Only having 11 is a pretty bad limitation for a calculus 3 worksheet on 3d functions :). I didn't have any success, though; I still have a 64Mb limitation that quickly runs out. For now, the code is in $SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage/server/notebook/js.py. I don't know where it will be in William's new notebook. It would be *fantastic* if we could have better interaction with the 3d plots. You can turn on spinning by the right-click menu, and zooming with the mouse works too. I think it would be really fun to be able to pick points out in the 3d plot and have it do something (like talk back to the server in an interact, giving the coordinates of what you picked). I was looking at the contour lines/planes. I wish we could employ that to get contour cut planes for a scalar field. Also, I'd really, really like to get some sort of mesh for pmesh/isosurfaces that looks like the black lines on contour plots rather than the light blue lines that currently show when the mesh is on. In fact, what I'd really love to see is arbitrary mesh functions, similar to what is implemented in a worksheet here: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5511 (see http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/5511/mesh_function.jpeg for a picture). I think Mathematica has a nice interface to these sorts of things: http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/MeshFunctions.html We (Sage) can take care of the interface to draw meshes. What we'd need from jmol is the ability to draw a line *on* a surface and have it look like the contour lines look like on a plane (maybe by somehow specifying the edges of triangles that the line crosses, and at what place to put the point of the edge?) The problem now is that we need to draw really thick lines so that the surface doesn't mask the line on one side or the other. Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
