On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: > >> We could try changing how jmol is used in Sage as follows: when the >> user isn't actively using the 3d image, it is replaced by a static >> png. Then there would be at most 1 jmol applet per page. >> > > That seems to be how mathematica does things.
Yes. I should have acknowledged that this is where I got the idea. > At least, when I have > compiz turned on, I physically see the static figure be replaced (with a > window swooping in) by a window that lets me rotate, and when I let go, > the figure is redrawn as a static image. Sometimes this is really > annoying, as I have to wait for the figure to be changed. True. But it scales. > In our case, it sounds like we would have to wait for a round trip to > the server every time we tried rotating things? (or maybe we'd wait a > few seconds, and then replaced it?) I can't see why a roundtrip to the server would be needed. > > Is there any chance of making a "lite jmol" that was took much less than > around 64/10=6.4M of memory? Surely there is a lot in jmol that we > don't use or need at the moment. > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
