OK, so I have JReality code running and independently creating U3D/PDF files
from the example JRS format files. So that's Java code for creating U3D
files and encapsulating them in PDF documents. I'm not sure that takes care
of it, but it's a good start.
Is there really any reason to integrate this code at all into Jmol? We
could just output JRS files and let the user run that through JReality's
WritePDF program. The idea here is that this is for the sophisticated user
anyway. So we could treat it like POV-Ray -- have a popup interface in the
Jmol application that creates the files necessary for WritePDF, and then run
that. I haven't found documentation for the JRS format, but it looks pretty
simple. The question, I suppose, is how to configure cameras to match Jmol's
perspective. My first attempt at that was not successful.
At least to start, it seems to me this would be a simple solution -- figure
out how to modify an example JRS file to include perspective. Create a
simple exporter and output a few simple Jmol objects to JRS format to see
how that works.
Bob
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Michail Vidiassov <mas...@iaas.msu.ru>wrote:
>
>> Dear Robert,
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Robert Hanson wrote:
>>
>> Jmol will NOT be writing U3D files. The compression algorithm is beyond
>>> my
>>> capabilities with the limited documentation available.
>>>
>>
>> While I still did not position the camera as you asked (will do that "real
>> soon now"), do you reject direct U3D output after taking look at U3D support
>> in JReality free Java library or without considering that option
>> (I do not do Java, thus I only know that thing exists, no more).
>>
>> Sincerely, Michail
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> 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
>
--
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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