Bob Hanson said: >> http://www.ill.fr/dif/3D-crystals/superconductors.html ) > so beautiful! I tried to rotate them! :)
To rotate them, you must install a VRML plug-in - my favourite is SGI's CosmoPlayer with FireFox - see: http://icsd.ill.fr/icsd/help/VRML-help.html > My first question is, did you produce these "by hand" or did you just > pull them from a database and they appeared this way? All automatic. Once you have installed a VRML plug-in, you can click on "Display" in the ICSD database eg http://icsd.ill.fr/icsd/index.php?action=Structure&id%5B%5D=23383 and you will see the default drawing, for which the polyhedrae are chemically meaningful. This PHP form does allow you to adjust how the structure is displayed, but the main interest is to get a chemically meaningful drawing from the database automatically. > You just aren't familiar with the polyhedra syntax... True. On the above page I also have a Jmol option for the display of this structure. I would like to be able to make the default Jmol display closer to the default VRML display. The reason I am interested in this is that the ball has been dropped on VRML with the demise of Silicon Graphics, just after CosmoPlayer was implemented under Windows and fast graphics cards became available (MSIE broke CosmoPlayer in April). It still works with FireFox, but I don't know for how much longer, and it does require copying the CosmoPlayer plugin to the browser plug-in folder, which is not obvious for all chemists. On the other hand, Java is actively supported, and the Java plug-in installation is largely automatic, so even computer illiterate users should be able to use Jmol - if it can be made automatic (how many times have I said automatic :-) And I see that Bob Downs has not done better with Jmol on the American Mineralogist database - no polyhedrae :-) Alan. _____________________________________________________________ Dr Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>fax+33.476.20.76.48 +33.476.20.72.13 (.26 Mme Guillermet) http://www.ill.fr/dif/AlanHewat.htm _____________________________________________________________ Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
