-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 June 2004 14:50, timothy driscoll wrote: > Miguel sent (2004.06.02 at 11.01a [+0200gmt]) : > >>I am using "animate" to describe the visualisation, in a defined > >>order, of a number of snapshots of molecular structure. The primary > >>uses are conformational transitions, molecular dynamics and > >>chemical reactions. Are there others? > > > >It is currently not implemented, but I plan to put in a restriction > >that an 'animation' needs to contain the same number and the same > >elements in the same order in every model. > > > >Q: Would this type of restriction conflict with any of these > >applications? > > > >(The only thing I can think of is nuclear reactions ... where the > >atom type would change :-) > > unless I misunderstand your suggestion, I would argue against such a > restriction. it is often helpful to animate the transition from bound > to unbound states of an enzyme, for example, where the bound state > structure contains ligand but the unbound state does not.
I see two options here: 1. make the ligand unvisible in the last half of the animation (or so...) 2. move the ligand away from the enzyme to get to clearly separated species (or a combination of both) Much easier than explicitely marking which atoms correspond in each frame... 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) iD8DBQFAvdFad9R8I9Yza6YRAgY/AKDHDtlpM7k2o0c2le1Zj9ldChmNtACgvJEF KevQI8DlD7aaEYRG/YQg4So= =Sk0T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
