On Monday 13 October 2003 21:25, Val�re Swinnen wrote: > >> > BTW, I have had further contact with Val�re from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > project, > > >> > and see has become more to the point on cooperation... she has given > >> > a few comments on the current Jmol (v7) which I will send to the list > >> > soon, and she told me that a possible way of cooperation would be > >> > that their GUI team would join in on the new renderer engine... She > >> > did ask me > >> > to query you about "how you would feel about working in a team"... > > > > I would love to have some help! There is much more work than I can do. > > > > At a high level, my request would be that they: > > - take the job seriously > > - conform to some general coding standards regarding > > * indentation style and naming > > * efficiency > > * dynamic memory allocation > > - be open to constructive criticism and code review/peer review > > > > I will strive to do the same ... particularly the last point > > > > Please have her get in touch with me when you think it is appropriate. > > First I would like to remark that I am a man, Egon! > Sorry if I gave you a false impression of myself? :-))
Oops... my apologies. I was wondering about it, but in Dutch your name sounds feminine... my mistake. > I am glad you feel that way about a possible co-operation Miguel. > Your requests (above) are the same as I would suggest if I were in your > place so I see no problem there. > The [EMAIL PROTECTED] project is actually more of a science project than > anything else. I/we expect serious people working on it. As far as I can > tell at least some of our forum members are university students and > graduates. Due to the nature of the project I think others (read: less > educated) people will be discouraged if only by the problems we will be > facing of which only a minority will be on programming. > I can not tell you at the moment how many people we will be able to put > on helping with the 3D engine. > We are only in the start-up phase at the moment. We are currently > working on setting up mailing lists for our teams. Only if this is done > we will accept developers. I am also working on a very crude todo list > for each team so that people get an idea about the work involved. > > In fact I am not 100% sure if we will be using Jmol at all. It is at the > moment a proposition made by me, and the initiator of the project Robert > Bradbury is inclined to go along with it. At the moment I am only the > (humble) acting co-ordinator of the project. Where is the project based? In USA, Europe? > I would be grateful Miguel if you could give me more details about this > new 3D engine you are working on. It would help me defending our > possible co-operation to the other critical project members. > Especial points of interest for us are: > 1. Speed! The, as ever, big Java question. Will the engine be able to > handle thousands even tens-of-thousands of atoms? I've opened the three files you send with v8: file 1 - 2596 atoms - 45ms file 2 - 6165 atoms - 64ms file 3 - 8297 atoms - 146ms I can't explain the non-linearity... moreover, this is with the old engine... > 2. How far is the development of the new 3D engine? > 3. A list of capabilities would be helpful, present and possible future > ones. A demo can be found in the subdirs of http://jmol.sf.net/demo/ > I would expect that in the beginning the co-operation would be a full > one until the engine is complete and running bugfree. After that we will > probably only co-operate on parts that are of mutual interest. Sure. That sound more than reasonable to me. Egon -- PhD Molecular Representation in Chemometrics Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry http://www-cac.sci.kun.nl/people/egonw.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
