Henry wrote: > Excuse if an FAQ (I did not immediately find the answer on the sf site!) > but are there any plans to support pmesh surfaces?
This is the first that I have ever heard of it. A Google search for 'chime pmesh' turns up *6* results ... looks like this is not very well known. > There is an excellent site at > http://www.otterbein.edu/home/fac/dnhjhns/symmetry/details.html > (there may be many others) which does good things with pmesh surfaces! very interesting The pmesh format looks very simple and would be easy to add. The biggest problem would be that Jmol currently has no infrastructure to support reading a *supplemental* file ... it only reads molecular model files. So I need to think about that. Q: Any votes/comments from other people regarding support for pmesh files? Q: Does anyone have any direct experience using them in Chime? > PS The above generates the pmesh surface using Excel. Does anyone have > other > experiences creating pmesh surfaces, using perhaps other 3D tools? How > for > example would one generalise the alignment of a pmesh surface with a > molecular > coordinate frame? > > Even more ambitious would be software that transforms (a subset?) of eg > 3dmf files to pmesh files. That would open up the world of molecular > orbitals > (3dmf files are generated by programs such as Chem3D, MacMolPlt etc). > The challenge is that such files can be big (and here I mean 2-10 Mbytes) > and optimising them for size is a challenge! If we add pmesh support, and if there is demand, then I would consider adding 3dmf support directly. Once I am reading one file it shouldn't be that difficult to read additional file types. Note that the Apple QuickDraw 3dmf file does not seem to be particularly popular with Apple. Most of the links I found to Apple's format specifiation are dead. This one still works: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/QD3D/qd3dmetafile.2.htm Miguel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
