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Peter Murray-Rust wrote: | At 15:41 18/05/2004 +0100, aonghus wrote: | |> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |> Hash: SHA1 |> | | We mentioned this as one object that could be algorithmically generated | as an isosurface | | | | We are working on much of this at present. We have an alpha version of | cif2cml converted that is able to read CIFs into CML, apply symmetries, | compute the chemically reasonable fragments, use CDK to generate 2D | structures and write out the results. | |> It would seem that displaying thermal ellipsoids should be relatively |> easy- the information is already in the file- have a look at |> |> http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~louis/software/ortep3/ |> |> for an example. | | | It is not quite trivial. The ellipsoids are defined wrt crystal axes and | you also have to be able to apply symmetry elements to symmetry related | ellipsoids. However if you are prepared to hack though the matrix | algebra (which is standard in many books) you can deduce the semiaxes of | the ellipsoids. The Jmol has to be able to draw an ellipsoid. This | should be easier than ORTEP because the hidden line algorithm is not | required. |
yes, I see. Crystallographers very sensibly do everything with respect to the crystal axes- but, the space group is given in the .cif file and it can't be too hard to compute the thermal ellipsoid information (or anisotropic displacement parameters- are they just direction cosines?) when the file is read. I don't think it is necessary to do anything really fancy here- rendering the ellipsoidal isosurface is probably overkill- what would be very useful is 3 'thin' ellipses, aligned along the 3 axes to give some indication of the size and direction. This is what most of the other programs do (and then perhaps something more sophisticated could be done for povray output for eg.).
|> It might also be possible to display the symmetry elements- perhaps by |> reading the symmetry information from the file, constructing the "extra" |> atoms and maybe making them into a special selection that can be toggled |> on/off? | | | Again not trivial, but possible. | |> I am not a crystallographer- are there many crystallographers using |> Jmol? Are there plans to implement these features? | | | We hope to make our CIF2CML software available fairly soon as | OpenSource. It concentrates on the chemistry rather than the | crystallographic experiment. I don't think Jmol should be become a CIF | viewer, but it could reasonably display crystal+symmetry+atoms |
Yes, thats a good idea cif -> cif2cml -> Jmol especially if it can handle reconstructing the symmetry elements. So, we await the release of CIF2CML. It seems to me that Jmol (with some small(?) extensions) could make a very nice cif viewer- is there some other free/open source software which can do all these things?
many thanks
aonghus
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