I'm certainly in agreement with Henry on this point. Collada is a kludge that's
currently useful for getting a twiddleable model into a recalcitrant platform.
Collada's origins are of the entertainment sector - not molecular science.
Where twiddleable models are the only objective, this kludge is fine for now.
That was my main point.
The real question for the future is will these recalcitrant platforms move
beyond twiddleable molecular models? I guess (hope) the answer is yes, but I
fear they will not arrive at where Jmol is now until much later in the current
decade, and that may be too optimistic.
Otis
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On Apr 3, 2012, at 2:55 AM, Rzepa Henry wrote:
>
> On 3 Apr 2012, at 05:20, Jeff Hansen wrote:
>
>> Assuming everyone wants to spend $20 for a Windows only application I
>> suppose you might be right (about not putting it at the top of the todo
>> list). Probably not a good assumption though.
>>
>
>
> Since the purpose of obtaining Collada export was to create a 3D widget in
> iBooks author so as to incorporate an interactive model, an alternative
> which may preserve the data integrity rather better would be to include eg
> GLMol or Chemdoodle or any other as a widget in iBooks author.
>
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