> It would be helpful for me to understand what type of potential > applications you are thinking of ... > > Are you thinking of Jmol for viewing molecules?
Yes. We want to develop a kind of CAD tool for designing our own molecules from the bottom up. We call it a Computer Aided Molecular Design tool. We also want to use it to display results of molecular modelling packages, which ones are unknown at the moment but we are thinking about VASP? We also want to develop our own scripting language (probably in Python using Jython).
Secondly, we would like to use it for a Distributed Computing client (screensaver).
Our website is at www.nanoathome.org.
> Or, are you thinking of the using the graphics engine for rendering other > types of objects?
It depends on what you mean by "other types of objects".
> Whatever you are thinking of using, is it in the context of an applet or > of a standalone application?
Standalone application.
>> 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. > >You said 'defending' ... what else are you looking at?
Nothing at the moment! I have to defend my proposition of using Java instead of some other language to develop our software. There are others in our group who would prefer to do it in C or C++.
We want our software to run on Windows and Linux systems at least. Speed is in fact the only factor that works against using Java for our project but I think looking at the demo of your new engine that we should go for it. There are just too many benefits in using Java.
Jmol is also, I think, one of the better examples of a ‘general’ molecular visualisation package. Not too specific, not too big so it should be fairly easy to strip it from the parts we will not need for our software.
Did you test Jmol on a Linux or other unix system?
Are you developing with the latest J2SE release (1.4.2_01)?
I have noticed a considerable improvement in speed compared to 1.4.
> But it would be good to have someone else take a critical look at it, or > to use it heavily.
We will do that! Not to worry! :-)
Regards,
Valère
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