It may be that there is a problem, but I don't see it on my computer which is a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.8 and using Safari 4.0.3. The animation runs smoothly throughout.
*********************************************** Jeff Hansen Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry DePauw University 602 S. College Ave. Greencastle, IN 46135 [email protected] *********************************************** On Aug 26, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Eric Martz wrote: > Jmol's rendering appears to me to become very slow at high zoom, when > there are many atoms outside the viewport. That is, spinning and > zooming get slow and jerky. For example, > > http://proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/User:Eric_Martz/Molecular_Playground/Tamiflu > > Click the "Play Animation" button. Near the end of the animation, the > protein appears as green cartoon, at high zoom. Prior to the green > cartoon appearing, the large spacefilled Tamiflu Drug spins smoothly > (even tho antialiasdisplay is on). The moment the green cartoon > appears, spinning becomes slow and jerky. As the molecule zooms down, > when the entire protein and cartoon are within the viewport, spinning > and zooming again become much faster and smoother. > > My guess is that at high zoom, Jmol is spending lots of time > rendering structure that is outside the viewport and will not be > shown. If this guess is correct, would it be feasible to code Jmol to > skip rendering the out-of-viewport portions, to improve performance? > > Thanks, -Eric > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and > focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
