I am extremely impressed! It seems to be specifically optimized for rendering molecules, but I'm going to write an exporter for our 3d shapes as meshes and see how well it does.
- Robert On Dec 14, 2007, at 2:28 AM, William Stein wrote: > > Hello, > > Tachyon3d is a raytracing program that has served Sage very very well > for easy-to-produce > standalone fast simple 3d raytracing. It was written by a chemist for > visualizing molecules, etc. > > I found a page (http://www.openscience.org/blog/) that recommends > Sage, > and when scrolling down it noticed that it had a very > solid no-install-needed lightweight but extremely high quality and > tasty molecule of > caffeine embedded in it. Following the link I found > > http://jmol.sourceforge.net/ > > which is a totally frickin' awesome 3d Java chemistry visualization > toolkit. > > If you've been following the large amount of brainstorming about 3d > graphics and > Sage over the last few weeks, definitely check out that above link, > and links like this: > > http://jmol.sourceforge.net/#What%20the%20critics%20are% > 20saying > > Definitely try this out: > > http://jmol.sourceforge.net/demo/ > > it is very very impressive. > > Yes, it appears to be aimed at chemistry, but if you look at the > examples, and at the API > documentation, you'll see that it's somewhat similar to tachyon, and > has things like: > --------------- > pmesh meshID [option] "filename.pmesh" > > With the pmesh command you can add one or more surfaces to a model. > The pmesh command is > similar to the isosurface command in terms of options. The pmesh > command takes the overall format... > --------------- > > So, just as with Tachyon, it's conceivable that jmol could be just the > right tool for the job, finally. > We shall see. > > By the way, a large amount of the work that Robert Bradshaw put into > 3d graphics and Java3d > last summer was really in writing fast Cython code for generating 3d > models from scene > descriptions (building on work of Tom Boothby and Josh Kantor). That > same work would carry > over to jmol. > > -- William > > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
