Jmol developers, I've successfully built a stand-alone app, Jvxl.jar, that reads CUBE files and creates JVXL files from them. Not ready to call it releasable, but feel free to play with it.
As part of this endeavor I was able to abstract out the Marching Cubes and Marching Squares algorithms as separate classes today. They can be found at SourceForge. The Jvxl directory now contains subdirectories calc, data, readers, and util. There's a "MarchingReader" interface there that shows the three necessary methods a reader must have to work with the algorithms. Basically you give these classes a set of 3D scalars and information about axes and dimensions (class VolumeData), right now as a CUBE file, and they give you back vertices, triangles, and JVXL code. It's actually kind of neat. If anyone can give me some help making it work as a stand-alone app, that would be nice. I think Nico started in on that; it works in Eclipse debug mode but not from the command line. What am I missing? See http://jmol.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/jmol/trunk/Jmol/src/org/openscience/jvxl/ I think if you look you will see that it is not exactly straightforward how these algorithms work, but at least they are in one place now. So if anyone really wants to figure them out, it should be simpler than looking through 100 pages of Isosurface code. At some point I'll try to integrate this into Jmol along with separate classes for solvent/molecular-related surfaces and probably a class for generalized shapes (spheres, ellipses, lobes). But we'll see... Bob ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
