In reply to my query about 'save' for automated file production for
QT animations,
Miguel wrote:
Save is not yet implemented.
Save to gif will never be implemented.
I will take a look at it.
and Bob Hanson wrote:
David, not to be critical, but why not just use the Jmol applet itself with
real-time scripting, etc. on your site or in your powerpoint? Why go
to all this
work making a .mov or .avi file? It will be far smoother.
I welcome Bob's suggestion, although I gather from what's been said
on this list that using applets in PP is a Win-only option, and I'm a
Mac user.
However I do think the save function is useful, and I'm not just
speaking for myself here. First, I'm not a structural biologist,
protein chemist or biochemist. I'm a University molecular biologist
turned bioinformatician, who is currently working on visualizing the
results of a colleague who is a structural biologist. It was he who
wanted to know how to make animations for PP presentations. He uses
Rasmol extensively and is also keen on having the students script
animations and uses them in undergraduate lectures (I personally am
not a fan of passive movies in teaching), so when he told me how he
had discovered animated gifs as a way of getting an animation into PP
I explained that there was a better way (better because you can
control it and wind it back to a particular point). He is now a keen
user of QT movies in his lectures and tells me that people at his
lectures ask him how to do it, and he passes on the instructions.
Now, regardless of my own technical ability to do the more
interesting and complex thing, this shows that one of the audiences
at which Jmol is targetted would need the 'save' functionality.
I've only ever given one PP presentation at a scientific meeting
(retired from the bench while they were still using real slides) and
that was this April, where I decided to include a couple of short
movies to illustrate my website (as I couldn't get a connection for
the lecture). My problem was that I didn't think the gifs gave good
enough quality, so I used picts (OS 9), however the movies wouldn't
play on Windows, so I had to produce two versions. That, and my
eventual migration to OS X (I still run both OSs), was the reason I
was interested in Jmol's capabilities for scripted 'save'.
David
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