Hi Henry,
I have a paragraph of Jmol history in footnote 1 here:
http://proteopedia.org/w/Jmol
Which leads to early history by searching for "jmol" at openscience.org:
http://openscience.org/?s=jmol
Much of Jmol's command language was invented by Roger Sayle when he
created RasMol. Tim Maffet used Roger's public domain source code when
he created the browser plug-in MDL Chime, which was the best
within-browser solution from 1996 until Jmol superceded it ca. 2006.
Thus, Chime included most of RasMol's command language. Michael "Miguel"
Howard, who I believe first adapted Jmol to display macromolecules,
incorporated the RasMol/Chime command language into Jmol, facilitating
the transitions of RasMol and Chime users to Jmol. Of course Jmol's
command language is now vastly larger and more powerful and complex than
the languages of RasMol & Chime. But the original RasMol language is
still a core subset.
Although far from complete, quite a bit of pre-Jmol history is here,
including physical models and early computer graphics:
http://History.MolviZ.Org
-Eric
On 6/7/17 2:28 AM, Rzepa, Henry S wrote:
Does anyone know the various anniversary dates?
1. Jmol (was it really only released in 2001? I thought it came about
just a year or so after Java itself was released in 1996?)
2. JSmol (2014?)
3. Bob’s own entry after Miguel handed on (??)
Is there a hall of fame, going back perchance to Xmol (which started
the bandwagon, + Rasmol as a separate fork?) and key
timelines/contributors? The Jmol Wikipedia page is not that strong on
the history).
Henry Rzepa, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8635-8390
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