On Mon, August 22, 2005 9:50 am, Miguel said:
> * Personally, I have little/no interest in helping to create 'publication
> quality images'
> - I work on Jmol for free/fun
> - my motivation is to help students learn
> introductory chemistry/biochemistry
> <inflammatory>
(1)> - publications are targeted at professionals, not students
(2)> - publications are business entities that have budgets
(3)> - there are other software tools that can do a better
> job of generating publication-quality images
(4)> - the whole purpose of Jmol is to do things in 3D, not 2D
(5)> - paper distribution of professional publications is
> dead / dying / wrong / inappropriate given the web
(6)> - electronic distribution of professional publications
> should be interactive ... they should *use* Jmol, not
> just take flat pictures from Jmol
Overall I have to agree with Miguel. Primarily Jmol is for presenting an
interactive model for the user to explore and grafting a lot of extra
functionality onto that framework is not efficient when there are other
tools available. The problem comes up because people are lazy and don't
want to have to re-do all of the setup (usually incompatible) in a new
program when they find that the current program doesn't have all the
functionality desired. I know I sure don't.
With respect to the above points that Miguel made:
1) onsense. Publications are *used* by student's to learn from
professionals even if they never become professionals in a related field
themselves.
2) ? That one went over my head.
3) Yep. We just have to bite the bullet and realize that it is better to
use one of them from the outset when a print-oriented result is desired.
4) The screen is just as 2D as a page is.
5) Not yet, not in this decade. Maybe someday but it is still a long way
from having all the problems worked out. So until then....
6) Yes they should.
>
> /* I don't intend to offend anyone with my inflammatory remarks */
Rich (Not offended in the least)
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