Egon,

I exchanged brief email messages with Raj today.

> But maybe, the developer can better make a  plugin for it?

>From his description, it looks like this is some type of graph (instead of
a surface). In which case, you are right. The plugin mechanism is the way
to do it.

Miguel


> On Wednesday 26 November 2003 22:34, Miguel Howard wrote:
>> > Thus, a force field can be used to generate 3D  coordinates.
>>
>> Do these 3d coordinates define a closed surface?
>
> A force field is not like an electric field... it's a field in
> multidimensional space representing the energy of a 3D conformation of
> the  molecule... in other words, the generated 3D coordinates are simply
> atomic  coordinates... the force field is just that maths used to
> calculate them...
>
>> I am wondering whether or not these calculations should be made in the
>> context of CDK.
>>
>> Perhaps the JmolModelAdapter can be extended to allow one to pass sets
>> of coordinates that define a shape. That would allow Jmol to display
>> the orbital calculations that are already part of CDK.
>
> IIRC, the force field will be part of CDK, but I guess the cvs write
> access is  needed to add menu's to Jmol?? But maybe, the developer can
> better make a  plugin for it? Then he does not need Jmol write access at
> all...
>
> Egon
>
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