Hi Edward Well, I'm sorry about my absence of knowledge of the details of the Pymol licensing... I'm not so much of a developer and obviously often see things much simpler than they are.
I just wanted to throw the idea about Pymol. Cheers Sebastien :) Edward d'Auvergne wrote: > On 10/27/06, Sebastien Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi all ! >> >> I also like the Tensor representation of the diffusion tensor. >> >> If Molmol is a problem for connectivities and heteroatoms, why not >> change >> relax to output script for Pymol instead of Molmol ? This is just a >> proposition since I'm a Pymol user... ;) >> >> http://pymol.sourceforge.net/ >> >> Pymol is open source, fully scriptable, written in Python and can >> run on >> either Linux, Windows or Mac... > > I use PyMOL as well, the graphics are much better. However I have > tried getting relax to interface with PyMOL but this has been > problematic. Essentially to access the internals of PyMOL, relax > would have to run within PyMOL's python prompt as a PyMOL plugin. The > same situation occurs with VMD. Molmol on the other hand can be > controlled from within relax. > > To use these molecular viewers relax must be able to control them - > not the other way around where the viewers control relax (which, in > the case of PyMOL and VMD, is probably not too difficult). If someone > knows how to control PyMOL or VMD, or any other molecular viewing > program, to generate images using the data in relax, and would like to > add the feature into relax, that would very much be welcome. Much of > the code used to generate the Molmol images can be used to generate > images in other programs. The ultimate solution would be to have > PyMOL expose it's API to the command prompt or to expose it's python > interface to the prompt to allow relax to feed commands into it. Btw, > I'm not a fan of turning relax into multiple plugins for different > programs just to make this work. > > Edward > > > P.S. Please excuse the following rant! On another note, one thing > with PyMOL that I don't like is that it is dual licenced. Normally > this isn't an issue. However they force PyMOL developers to transfer > the copyright of their own independently created works to DeLano > Scientific LLC. Then DeLano Scientific LLC benfits from your hard > work (while you get nothing) by licencing and selling your work in the > non open source version. It probably also legally means that you can > never use the work you have 'given away' for anything else! And > legally if you have taken that code from another project of yours, > then you may have lost ownership of that as well! You aren't giving a > licence to your work to DeLano Scientific LLC, you're permanently > giving them the ownership of it. This is not how a normal open source > community is supposed to work. > -- ______________________________________ _______________________________________________ | | || Sebastien Morin || ||| Etudiant au PhD en biochimie ||| |||| Laboratoire de resonance magnetique nucleaire |||| ||||| Dr Stephane Gagne ||||| |||| CREFSIP (Universite Laval, Quebec, CANADA) |||| ||| 1-418-656-2131 #4530 ||| || || |_______________________________________________| ______________________________________ _______________________________________________ relax (http://nmr-relax.com) This is the relax-devel mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, visit the list information page at https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/relax-devel
