I would suggest to change the manual to get a right handed systemTo help get us all on the same page, I have prepared a draft positioning test at:
http://arcib.dowling.edu/~BernsteH/postest/
I will run rasmol for a variety of platforms (including sgi, mac
and windows )through this test later today and see if we have gotten
turned around on any of them. In any case it is the intention,
as stated in the manual for y to be increasing going down and x
to be increasing going to the right.
timothy driscoll schrieb:
RasMol2.7 Irix (starts with rotate x 180) translation Y down, X right, Z to front (rotation after a rotate x 180 command! x+ y+ z- )Q: Given that there *are* existing applications and tutorials, what do you think we should do about this issue?
a right-handed orientation "seems" more natural to me, though I am hard-pressed to explain why (I'm left-handed).
I can take a look...Q: Do other molecular visualization applications have the +Y axis pointing upwards or downwards?
InsightII (starts as expected) translation: Y up, X right, Z to front (rotation x+, y+, z-)
MolMol (as expected) Y up, X right, Z ? (rotation x+, y+, z+)
MolScript (as expected) Y up, X right, Z ? according documentation, to the front (rotation x+, y+, z+)
+rotation means right handed (as the fingers around the thumb pointing to positive values)
I suggest, lets make it like MolMol and MolScript. Regards, Jan
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