Hi,
digging in sourceforge jmol-developers list, I found that Bob starts appearing
as a recurring character in 2005 and secures the leading role in developping
Jmol in mid 2006 after having exhausted Miguel with thousands of messages and
commits. That was around Jmol v10.x
It looks like we missed the 10th anniversary celebration ;)
As for Jsmol, there was an article published in 2013 announcing its release
(was issued some month after the initial Jsmol tour de force) :
https://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/2013_Hanson_Prilusky_IJC.pdf
<https://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/2013_Hanson_Prilusky_IJC.pdf>
Paul
> Le 08-06-2017 à 11:09, Eric Martz <ema...@microbio.umass.edu> a écrit :
>
> Hi Henry,
> I have a paragraph of Jmol history in footnote 1 here:
>
> http://proteopedia.org/w/Jmol <http://proteopedia.org/w/Jmol>
> Which leads to early history by searching for "jmol" at openscience.org:
> http://openscience.org/?s=jmol <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 1996 until Jmol superceded it ca. 2006.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 <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
>> <http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8635-8390>
>>
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