Greetings ... I use Linux and am doing 3d anination with VRML on Linux now.
I use Java3d, and it is probably a better more capable solution for your type of application. Java3d is more modern, object-oriented, and better suited for modeling complex animations than VRML scripts in terms of speed, and creating a growing and changing library of programmed behavoirs. Java3d _ is _ now being used for molecular modeling and compatable VRML files are available ( without scripts ) and Java3d programs have already been developed and I have been collecting some of them. - - - - - - - - - - - Please post a longer explanation of what you have done, plan on doing, and would like, and what you need, including a set of simpler problems and data sets. I've downloaded the 14 VRML ( .wrl ) you have at: http://atom.princeton.edu/donev/Packing/VRML/ My programs do _ NOT _ use or run VRML scripts. My programs can animate VRML animations using VRML Positition and Rotation Interpolators ( which is admitted offers only limited animations ) and with direct Java control ( with compiled Java, not interpreted Javascript ) which is, I believe a better solution. In the next few weeks I will being some work with some moleculuar and particle modeling programs and data sets ... relatively simple things ... and I'm a programmer and not a chemist. There are some other lists you can post to, but first I'd like a clearer understanding of what you want and need. My Java3d programs run on Windows & Linux and I can create movie animation files (.mov, .mpg ) directly the VRML animations ... but they don't run VRML scripts. I looked briefly at some of your VRML files and they all seemed to based on VRML scripts. I have converted other VRML scripts into compiled Java programs ... they run faster ... but your programs seemed too complex for a quick, trivial re-write. If you posted to your web site simpler models: either static models or with the simple VRML animations ( without scripts ) I could try my programs on them and quickly know it worked out. I strongly encourage you to consider Java in preferance to VRML Javascript ... yes, it requires some time to learn ... but, in the long run, it should give better results, more quickly, with less effort. -- Paul Aleksandar Donev wrote: Hello, Many thanks to all on this list that helped me get started with VRML. Although I still haven't succeeded in running my models under Linux, they seem to run fine under Cosmo and Cortuna, and you can take a look if you wish at: http://atom.princeton.edu/donev/Packing/VRML/ For example, http://atom.princeton.edu/donev/Packing/VRML/SL.3D.100.compression.wrl shows an animation of a molecular-dynamics process of packing spheres. Replace 3D with 2D for disks. Best, Aleksandar -- __________________________________ Aleksandar Donev Complex Materials Theory Group (http://cherrypit.princeton.edu/) Princeton Materials Institute & Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics @ Princeton University Address: 419 Bowen Hall, 70 Prospect Avenue Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08540-5211 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://atom.princeton.edu/donev Phone: (609) 258-2775 -- Paul, Java Developer & Web Animator ----------------------------------------------------- "Imaging the Imagined: Modeling with Math & a Keyboard" =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
