Re: [Jmol-users] Finally! A nice cyclohexane chair/chair flip demo

2011-02-23 Thread Hens Borkent
Op 23-2-2011 10:12, Rzepa Henry schreef: I appreciate a debate on this topic may or may not be suited for the Jmol list, but if anyone wants to add their opinion, I would welcome this, if only because my synthetic organic chemistry colleagues need to know what the most realistic

Re: [Jmol-users] message command

2007-01-09 Thread Hens Borkent
Dear Rick, Eric, What the simpler solution is I don't know, but I can tell what I do (since a long time, before jmol.js emerged, so it could be a bit outdated...): Write your comments in javascript in a data array data[1], data[2] where the index corresponds to the frame number it is related

[Jmol-users] lines in frames

2006-10-26 Thread Hens Borkent
A short question, concerning lines and planes in an animation (multiple XYZ file). When I call a script like frame 1 draw line1 120 (atomno=1) (atomno=2) draw plane1 200 PERP PLANE $line1 the line is shown in all frames of the animation, while the plane turns out to be attached to frame1 only.

Re: [Jmol-users] surfaces and JVXL files

2006-08-20 Thread Hens Borkent
Hi Frieda Solvent-accessible surfaces of macromolecules are what I am accustomed to using vis Chime, hence what I am seeking to create. However I have to admit that I am not aware of what the distinction is between isosurface and solvent-accessible surface... Isosurface became the name

Re: [Jmol-users] surfaces and JVXL files

2006-08-18 Thread Hens Borkent
Hi Frieda, While Bob is crossing the ocean: As I understood it, JVXL files can be generated from any surface displayed by Jmol. The JVXL lines are written to the Java console (if your browser has one..Mine at home hasn't, so I can't test what I'm writing here). The source of the surface

Re: [Jmol-users] Interpolation in animation?

2006-08-02 Thread Hens Borkent
Egon Willighagen wrote: On Tuesday 01 August 2006 21:20, Eric Martz wrote: 1. I would be pleased to see a simple linear interpolation option built into Jmol. The need for such morph animations is becoming more common as more structures are solved in different conformations. Having it built

Re: [Jmol-users] orbitals as cartoons

2006-06-07 Thread Hens Borkent
Jonathan Gutow wrote: Bob, I think I see where you are going, but am a little worried. If it is a cartoon, it needs to be clear that it is. .. I think a tool like Jmol should be used to provide as accurate a representation of things as we can. Thus in relation to

Re: [Jmol-users] orbitals as cartoons

2006-06-07 Thread Hens Borkent
Bob Hanson wrote: What we can now do is depict isosurfaces for: (a) CUBE files, (b) essentially equivalent but 1/500 the size JVXL files, (c) atomic orbitals centered at (0,0,0) and aligned with the molecular xyz axis. The fact that we can do (c) suggests that any reasonable built-in

Re: [Jmol-users] proposed addition to Jmol web site

2006-05-26 Thread Hens Borkent
Angel, They are very clear, should be a great help. Hens Hi all. Looking at several recent posts, it seems that new Jmol users tend to visit the demo- example pages on the Jmol web site, copy the source code of the page, then make their changes and find that they don't work, usually because

Re: [Jmol-users] displaying orbitals/isosurfaces...

2006-05-23 Thread Hens Borkent
Jonathan, Very nice page indeed. I once made a page with gaussian calculated AO's, and found that a 3p orbital had some of the 2p mixed in, resulting in too many nodal planes. A problem which you managed to avoid. http://cheminf.cmbi.ru.nl/wetche/organic/srm1j/index.html On top of Miguels

Re: [Jmol-users] altLoc and disorder

2006-05-11 Thread Hens Borkent
Bob Hanson wrote: I just meant that's how I implemented it -- for crystals -- where runs are not the issue. (or are they?) Well, somebody already mentioned the relation with partial occupancy, a phenomenon found in crystals. A quick check showed that of the 1400 CSD structures with a

Re: [Jmol-users] connected() -- and functional groups

2006-04-18 Thread Hens Borkent
Hi Bob, Nice initiative. I don't have the definite file yet (think about ring detection techniques during your sabbatical ;) ), just a few additions: define ~nitroN nitrogen and connected(3) and connected(2,~sp2O) define ~nitroO ~sp2O and connected(~nitroN) define ~nitro ~nitroN or ~nitroO

Re: [Jmol-users] partial bond

2006-04-07 Thread Hens Borkent
Bob, I think the point is that there is a role for a bond type that looks like a single, thick, dotted line, not solid+dotted as in aromatic; not thin and dotted like typical hbonds. The fact that there is a file type that registers this suggests that it is warranted. Hens, for the life of

Re: [Jmol-users] partial bond

2006-04-06 Thread Hens Borkent
To follow up on this: I realized that the suggestion to interpret partail01 as an hbond wasn't such a good idea, as hbonds are drawn as thin lines. However, when I checked Bob's 10.1 demo page I noticed something odd (to me). The last caffeine command CONNECT MODIFY HBOND turns all the existing

[Jmol-users] Re: Polyhedra connections

2006-03-21 Thread Hens Borkent
Bob, Incredible what a nice, estetically pleasing pictures one can make this way with a few commands. The facet type of depiction I really like, as it doesn't hide the central atom. Not knowing what (or who? New sponsor?) maxFactor was I changed the number to e.g, 1.9, and that froze the

Re: [Jmol-users] internal coordinate spinning and rotating -- request for comment

2006-03-15 Thread Hens Borkent
Bob, At the end of a difficult but ultimately satisfying day, I offer the following page for comment: http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/jmol/test/json/spin.htm Worked great for me, except one thing: Clicking an axis to rotate it didn't work with my MS IE6/WindowsXP; it was in Mozilla

Re: [Jmol-users] internal coordinate spinning and rotating -- request for comment

2006-03-15 Thread Hens Borkent
Bob Hanson wrote: I'm guessing that your IE cached something; it makes no sense that IE/Windows works differently from Firefox/Windows in this case. My IE/Windows works fine. You're right; working fine now. Sorry for the inconvenience. Hens

Re: [Jmol-users] to Miguel

2006-02-12 Thread Hens Borkent
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Re: [Jmol-users] applet -- callback brainstorming

2006-02-11 Thread Hens Borkent
Hi Bob, AS A USER, WHAT DO YOU WANT? a) Do you implement callbacks? If so, which ones? AnimFrame to synchronize other Javascript functions with an animation Pick to identify atoms, in particular in our molecule editor Message to return measurements, now largely replaced by monitors though

Re: [Jmol-users] Define a bond

2006-01-05 Thread Hens Borkent
a button that animates the structure, and the effect is that the bond is switched on and off. Send me a structure file if you want me to try it. Regards, Hens Borkent CMBI, Nijmegen --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you

Re: [Jmol-users] CHIME to JMol data interchange?

2005-11-15 Thread Hens Borkent
Hello Shravan, Hi All, We are trying to migrate an application from CHIME to JMol. We have a setup which requires CHIME to read a *.pdb file and build an IR spectra graph with the information provided. There is another frame where CHIME creates an animated visual of the loaded PDB data.

Re: [Jmol-users] decimal places in measurements

2005-09-01 Thread Hens Borkent
Phillip Barak wrote: I must weigh in here. I'll be surprised if the hundredths place has reasonable significance in any protein crystal structure. But Jmol is so adept at rendering non-proteins, too! :-) And crystallography isn't the only source of coordinates. But for the rest

[Jmol-users] Re: decimal places in measurements

2005-08-30 Thread Hens Borkent
Miguel wrote: I like this but prefer one digit to the right for Angstroms. If noone makes a strong argument to the contrary then we will change it to one digit. I support Rich in that one digit (in Angstroms) is too few for comparing bond lengths in organic structures, two is the

Re: [Jmol-users] axes and planes

2005-08-22 Thread Hens Borkent
Miguel wrote: Currently, the pmesh code only supports triangles and quadrilaterals. I did not see any reason to support polygons any bigger than that ... I even hesitated before putting in quadrilateral support. You are defining a plane ... Three non-colinear points are sufficient. Q: Why

Re: [Jmol-users] color bonds not atoms

2005-05-24 Thread Hens Borkent
Hi Brandon, Hello, I was wondering if there is a way to color the bonds of the structure instead of the atoms. The answer is rather intuitive: set bondmode and;select atomno1,atomno=2;color bonds blue Hens --- This SF.Net

[Jmol-users] Re: release the signed applet?

2005-04-19 Thread Hens Borkent
Miguel wrote: hi Miguel, a suggestion: can you release the signed Jmol applet as a compiled update? seems like it would address a lot of the recent (and ongoing) issues about local use of the Jmol applet. I know we can get the signed applet from CVS-HEAD, but I imagine the extra steps involved

[Jmol-users] Re: 'set measurements ...' to update *all* labels

2005-03-09 Thread Hens Borkent
Hi, To add to the confusion: we are talking about different things here. As I understood it, Chris was talking about changing the units during measurements, say from the default nm to angstroms, and then updating the values already being displayed. In one particular structure. [a problem I never

[Jmol-users] Re: two targets on the same page

2005-01-21 Thread Hens Borkent
Hervé, Let your button call a javascript function, and in this function you send any script to any applet you like document.jmol1.script('script1...'); document.jmol2.script('script2...'); In this way one can construct toggle buttons as well, which I don't find in the current jmol.js Is this

[Jmol-users] Re: Questions regarding surfaces

2005-01-20 Thread Hens Borkent
Miguel, The vanderWaals surface is useful to colour-code other information on it. In Chime one can display the electrostatic potential (ESP) or the lipophilicity on the vdw-surface. Especially the ESP is useful, but in Chime it turned out to be rather difficult to override the default charges

[Jmol-users] Re: charge in XYZ format

2005-01-20 Thread Hens Borkent
Miguel, Q: Please confirm that if I put in support for partial charges in the range (-1 partialCharge 1) inside the XyzReader then you will test and use this capability. Yes, I will. Hens --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW --

[Jmol-users] vibrations

2004-11-10 Thread Hens Borkent
Colleagues, To return to a familiar subject: visualization of vibrations. In Chime I used multipleXYZ files, written out by MOLDEN for a particular vibration and as calculated by Gaussian, MOPAC, etc. In Jmol I can still animate these mXYZ file, however the animation doesn't run smoothly. After

[Jmol-users] writing text with animations

2004-08-14 Thread Hens Borkent
) document.formname.textareaname.value = data[framenr] ; Something like that, try it. Regards, Hens Borkent --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail

[Jmol-users] dummy atoms

2004-08-10 Thread Hens Borkent
Miguel, You should also be able to select them as 'select elemno=0' Note that I have not tried either of these things. If they do not work then let me know. It works, thanks. The script command: restrict elemno=1 excludes the dummy atoms from the display. Hens

[Jmol-users] dummy atoms included/excluded

2004-08-09 Thread Hens Borkent
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[Jmol-users] models and frames

2004-02-27 Thread hens borkent
Miguel, However if that can be controlled in JMol by a script command set models nmr|anim ( set frames nmr|anim ?) it would be a good solution to distinguish between the two applications. Why is there a need to distinguish between the two? You're right. What I meant is that there

[Jmol-users] xyz vs pdb

2004-02-26 Thread hens borkent
:tim wrote AFAIK (again), xyz files are generally useful for small molecules but not for larger macromolecules. but maybe that's not quite accurate? Well, it is not so much the size that matters, as does the extra information a pdb file carries for proteins: e.g. secondary structure, amino

[Jmol-users] Chime2JMol

2003-09-26 Thread Hens Borkent
scripts have a provision for both: set picking distance etc. (would require a mechanism to place the result somewhere) , and 'spacefill number'. Greetings, Hens Borkent --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http