Dean, It is your site available for off-line viewing? I found very useful for teaching.
[]s, Camps On 9/7/07, Dean Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not a repository, but I do have a few of the structures you mention > (cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron) on my site > > http://symmetry.otterbein.edu/gallery/index.html > > If you look closely (show history) you'll find they're constructed from > atoms (whatever was convenient) manually connected using the CONNECT > command. The manual connections are required since they are not real > structures -- the default bonds that Jmol draws don't look too great. > > As Bob suggests, you can use the DRAW command to draw faces. The only > difficulty is faces with more than four sides. For the dodecahedron my site > uses a combination of three-sided and four-sided figures to "stitch > together" a five-sided face. > > I hope this is of some help. > > Dean Johnston > > > > On 9/6/07 5:55 PM, "Robley Light" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Its been a while since I've monitored this list, so forgive me if this is a > > question that has been asked and answered in the past. > > > > I'm working on a project related to some lower-grade math and science and I > > would like to use Jmol to display a variety of 3D solids (the five platonic > > ones, perhaps plus some other irregular ones). > > > > I can use ChemDraw to make a "cube" and "tetrahedron" of carbon atoms, save > > as a mol file, bring into Chem3D, delete the hydrogens, and > > "minimize"--producing a passable mol or pdb file for a cube and a > > tetrahedron. I can probably spend some time trying to figure out the > > coordinate values to make the bonds longer, and I understand I can use > > Jmol.js commands to work on how to display these structures (still trying to > > learn that). > > > > Before trying to do this with more complex shapes, though, does anyone know > > of a repository of such geometric files that have already been created? > > (I've spent a couple of hours with Google with out success). Or, does > > anyone have a suggestion of how to do this more easily (and elegantly)? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Robley Light > > > > ************************************************************* > > Robley J. Light Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and > > Biochemistry > > Department of Chemistry Phone: (850) 644-3844 > > and Biochemistry Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 95 Chieftan Way Fax: (850) 644-8281 > > Florida State University Home Page: > > http://www.chem.fsu.edu/editors/rlight > > Tallahassee, FL 32306-4390 > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
