-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 October 2004 23:55, Miguel wrote: > > "Bond order" is certainly an ambiguous term. Within in some simple > > models one has just simple 0.5, 1.5, 2.5. Within more sophisticated > > models even "1" bond order is seen as a crude approximation. Unless > > someone comes up with a color code for fractional bond order (could be > > cool, by the way), I think Jmol must err in the "simple" direction. > > My primary interest is still in Jmol as an introductory teaching tool ... > so I agree that keeping to the simple model is best for now.
More importantly for Jmol: we need a system that works for visualization! So, 1(.0) is clear... is simple one bond... Jmol does 2 and 3 too... and even 1.5 (one solid + one doted bond)... and the other .5 could be done similiarly... but going beyond that, towards other types of partial bonds would be not so usefull, because we could not depict this meaningfully... So, we have to keep it simple... Egon - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------- CDK: http://cdk.sf.net/ JChemPaint: http://jchempaint.sf.net/ Jmol: http://www.jmol.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (SunOS) iD8DBQFBd2fTd9R8I9Yza6YRAva9AJ9KPgSOp6quwBD0cvz7oqKW/EpDBwCfXjfX 77YXAoEhhbh08zxCtTp1now= =ufuM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
