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On Wednesday 02 June 2004 10:43, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
> At 09:39 02/06/2004 +0200, Miguel wrote:
> I would be very interested in being able to read animations in CML and I'd
> like the Jmol community's feedback before finalising the details of the
> format. I am using "animate" to describe the visualisation, in a defined
> order, of a number of snapshots of molecular structure. 

The CML syntax currently used in Jmol is:

<list dictRef="jmol:animation">
  <molecule id="FRAME1"/>
  <molecule id="FRAME2"/>
  <!-- etc -->
</list>

I guess the molecule element could use a @dictRef="jmol:animationFrame"

See for example CVS samples/cml/SN1_reaction.cml

> The primary uses
> are conformational transitions, molecular dynamics and chemical reactions.
> Are there others?

Not that I can think of at this moment... well, maybe demo's ... i.e. custom 
movies... those are hand-made, e.g. to visualize a biochemical process... but 
which are not the result of a program...

> In principle one can animate the chemistry (molecular structure) and also
> the visualisation (display styles, visibility, opacity, etc.) Here are some
> suggestions and I'd be grateful for what Jmol can do at present and would
> like to do in the future. I am using molecule, atom and bond as the primary
> objects, though clearly with graphical objects (boxes, spheres, etc.) there
> are other possibilities. The display properties are informed by SVG which
> can animate most CSS attributes and several others. We have been animating
> reactions using 2D SVG graphics and currently use many off:
>
> graphical object (and text):
>          colour, visibility, position, rotation, opacity
>
> molecule:
>          colour, visibility, position, rotation, opacity, velocity, surface
>
> atom
>          colour/style, visibility,  opacity
>          x,y,z
>          velocity
>          elementType (not common, but possible in free energy perturbation)
>
> bond
>          existence (important for reactions. We need to be able to insist
> on bond depiction, regardless of covalent radii)
>          display style (transition from solid to dotted, etc.), colour,
> radius, etc.
>          order (double may change to single, etc)
>          position. It may be useful for bonds to "swing" from one part of
> connected atoms to another (represents curly arrows in reactions)
>
> The SVG animations give people a new and often exciting feel about chemical
> reactions. If Jmol can do this in 3D it will be incredible. I suspect that
> much of it is already there in some form.

I think Miguel can best respond to these... I think most is implemented except 
for opacity, surface and 'curly arrows'...

Egon

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