On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Richard Gillilan wrote:
> Even XML is very verbose for molecular data, but I haven't seen any
> better way to write general objects to disk.
Apropos CML and verbose, I'd like to cite a recent post from Peter
Murray-Rust from svg-developers:
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 09:07:44 +
> Yes, CORBA is complex and has some overhead. I have also read that
> Microsoft's DCOM/OLE is very complex. I don't think either of
> these is a good way to go, though there are some very cool applications
> I have seen. A lab I know at LBL uses CORBA as a device interface.
You can do nice thing
> Konrad Hinsen wrote:
>
> Indeed. But this illustrates nicely a frequent problem faced by
> software designers: Software like OpenDX is powerful and flexible, but
> also huge and difficult to learn. A small specialized tool is easier
> to use for the specialized user. Of course those users then f
> One of the reasons I have stuck with OpenDX (www.opendx.org) for
> visualization for so long is the general (object-oriented) data
> model. It has its limitations, but it has proven very powerful.
> Users can define a wide variety of data in hierarchical forms.
Indeed. But this illustrates nicel
Jules Jacobsen wrote:
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> The core of this program is the data model in which each atom in a
> molecule is defined. The next layer are the conversion scripts which take
> the molecule data from the model and pipe them out to whatever format is
> needed for the various data manipu
