>> >> I'm not an expert, but from what I understand, the "load pmesh" command >> requires files that end with ".tmesh". > >OK ... seems strange to me ;-) > >>> Q: What is your timeframe for development/deployment of this website? >>> >>> This item is on the Jmol task list. I hope to implement it >>> within the next 4 to 6 months.
Whilst surface display is highly important to several areas of chemistry, I would flag one property of surfaces that might need attention, namely the <size> of the resulting files. We adopted 3dmf (another mesh like metaformat) for wavefunction display a few years ago, but it only became viable to deploy it on the web after a a games developer (Brian Greenstone) made his 3dmf optimizer available to the community. This normally reduces the size of the 3dmf file from around 5-12 Mbytes to 400-600K. I have no idea if pmesh files will suffer the same problem, but if no efficient optimiser is available, I suspect 10 Mbyte data files will not be viable for Web pages. There is another issue of course, and that is getting suitable programs (e.g Gaussview, GAMESS, Chem3D, MacMolPlt etc etc) to support the pmesh format (and in a perfect world, 3dmf => pmesh conversion would also be nice). -- Henry Rzepa. +44 (020) 7594 5774 (Voice); +44 (0870) 132 3747 (eFax); [EMAIL PROTECTED] (iChat) http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK. (Voracious anti-spam filter in operation for received email. If expected reply not received, please phone/fax). ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
