William, give this a try. It's all I have time for today, but it gives you some sense of Jmol's capability.
http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/examples-11/math.htm Bob William Stein wrote: >Hello Jmol-Devel, > >I'm the project directory of Sage (http://sagemath.org), an open >source mathematics software project, >which -- among other things -- has a web-browser based graphical >interface. See screenshots here: > > http://sagemath.org/screen_shots/ > >After searching for a long time for a good open source option for 3d >*interactive* graphics embedded >in the Sage notebook it seems that jmol is -- oddly enough -- the >best option, even though you guys >designed it for chemistry. We've been adapting it for doing general >mathematical visualization, and >just included it standard in sage-2.9.1, which was released today. > >We would have liked to use http://www.javaview.de/, but their license >is crap (from the point >of view of Sage). > >Thoughts? > > 1. What is the relation between javaview and jmol? > 2. What is the relation between java3d and jmol? > 3. Are you aware of jmol being used for applications outside of >chemistry? E.g., applications > to general mathematical visualization? > 4. Do you have any advice as to how jmol could be best used for more general > mathematical visualization? We can use/abuse the existing >molecular modeling > interface, but perhaps we should somehow coordinate with you and modify > jmol itself to have more general functionality? > 5. Viewing examples here: > http://www.javaview.de/demo/index.html > Do you think we can do as good -- or better -- then they do, but >using jmol? > >MANY MANY thanks for the huge amount of work you have all put into >creating a very >powerful easy-to-use and flexible 3d visualization toolkit! > > > > -- Robert M. Hanson Professor of Chemistry St. Olaf College Northfield, MN http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr If nature does not answer first what we want, it is better to take what answer we get. -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
