-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 18 February 2004 13:04, Miguel Howard wrote: > Two items we need to discuss. > > 1. connected sets > I now understand that I need to determine connected sets prior to shifting > to the unit cell. > This means that, in cases where the file does not contain bonding > information, I need to apply the auto-bonding prior to doing the shift. > However, shelx files are in fractional coordinates. That means that I have > an extra step with these. > - if the input data is in fractional coordinates then conver to euclidean > space > > After that, it will run the same as usual > - if there is no bonding information then auto-bond > - if it is a crystal, then putAtomsInsideTheUnitcell > - if weMovedAnyAtomsInsideTheUnitcell then rebond > > Where > putAtomsInsideUnitcell will use the connectivity data to determine how > to do the shifts. > > Please confirm that this looks right to you.
Yes, that looks right. > 2. IxJxK crystal matrix > > I think this is a good task and I am glad that you are interested in > working on it. > However, I do not think it is simple and I think we need to work on it > together ... at least to get started. Ack. > I believe that it will take several weeks to implement this. But the end > result will be good. Some of the architectural issues we will face will > directly apply to animations and vibrations, so it will have good payoff. Ok. > I think that there are some significant issues involved. Some of them are > 'crystalography' in nature ... like bonding between the cells. Others are > implementation dependent ... like the way that the graphics engine works. > > First, we need to *really* think about whether we want to try to duplicate > the atoms, or whether we want to try to handle everything by translating > the one unitcell to new positions. > > Let's start this discussion and we will go from there. Ok. We'll discuss this on the IRC chat channel (#cdk at irc.freenode.net for others who are interested... planned at 2pm CET today). Egon - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] PhD on Molecular Representation in Chemometrics Nijmegen University http://www.cac.sci.kun.nl/people/egonw/ GPG: 1024D/D6336BA6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (SunOS) iD8DBQFAM1snd9R8I9Yza6YRAoA2AKC/2zwdY1dF9zXL/TlELIZWxG/hDQCeKLVu 0s/duMQvMYEe/civlylpd70= =hv9L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
