First, about my available time (very little), but I hope to spend some more time on this come Mid-May.
2nd, the saving of views: Case 1: the user wants to send the graph to someone else who then opens it in Jmol to see what they were looking at. This can be done by switching to a recent version of Jmol and using the signed applet in SAGE. Then the user can save the view in a .jpg or .jmol file on their disk drive. So this one should be easy. Case 2: Saving a worksheet after the user has changed the way the 3-D plot looks. This requires saving data back to the server and will require quite a bit more work. I think this will require a direct collaboration between a Jmol programmer and someone with significant experience programming the worksheet server. I estimate 2-4 wks of solid work. I will need some way of getting some real credit for the work, if I am to pursue it. Because of difficulties getting credit for scholarship at my institution this translates into pay, a grant award or some way of getting a refereed publication from the work. That said, I will try to address it as I work in my "free" time on the Jmol SAGE interface. Jonathan On Apr 20, 8:29 am, Jason Grout <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/20/2010 07:19 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > > Not sure why it didn't show up at sage-support... but anyway, here is > > an email from Wayne Decatur about this issue. Anyone (Jason?) know if > > this is something we can take advantage of in our Jmol installation? > > We have a very outdated version of jmol. Jonathan Gutow (a jmol > developer) has been working a lot on updating jmol in Sage and > integrating it better into Sage (for which we are *very* grateful!); he > responded to some message about this in the last few days and pointed to > the URL that contains his current work. > > I know he's been busy for the last month or two, but he might have time > to work more on this now. > > I've CCd Jonathan. > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > > > Forward: > > Hi Dox and kcrisman, > > > I saw your post when searching for posts about Jmol for the > > Proteopedia twitter account. > > > Do you actually need the viewing 'angle' or are you just hoping to be > > able to open it again in the exact view or send that view to someone? > > > Either way, the recent Jmol versions save that information when you > > save the state, and in fact you can look at that in the state in the > > jmol console and save and then reload. The most recent version in fact > > saves the exact view and data all in png format that you can drag and > > drop in the application or signed apple. I saw Bob Hanson demonstrate > > it at UMass a couple weeks ago. It is noted at > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg14290.html, > > although the full majesty of it is not readily apparent from the post. > > You sort of have to see it to see in action. The goal is to be able to > > save one file and be able to send it to someone and have them open it > > with the exact view for which it was saved. > > > But if you don't have the most recent Jmol, look into saving the stare > > script and pasting it back in and running it. > > > Wayne > > > On Apr 19, 8:16 am, kcrisman<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Dear Dox, > > >> I don't know that you can do it via Jmol, but perhaps via Tachyon. > > >> sage: sage.plot.plot3d.tachyon? > > >> I imagine that looking more in depth at the Tachyon documentation (not > >> just the result of the above command) might help you more. I am sorry > >> that I don't know the answer to this, though. > > >> I am copying this on sage-support, which is a more appropriate forum > >> for it. > > >> - kcrisman > > >> On Apr 17, 6:46 pm, Dox<[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> Hi guys! > >>> I was wandering... 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