Re: [Jmol-users] rasmol axes orientation

2004-02-05 Thread timothy driscoll
at 8.34p EDT on 2004 February 05 Thursday Miguel Howard said: > The purpose of this memo is to start a discussion about an 'issue' with > axis orientation. > > I don't think it is that important for the biochemists, but I suspect it > will be more important for the crystalographers. > well, as

Re: [Jmol-users] rasmol axes orientation

2004-02-05 Thread Miguel Howard
>> Q: Do people agree that the rotation commands should be consistent >> with the axes orientation? (right-hand implies counter-clockwise >> rotations) > > counter-clockwise when looking along the axis towards the origin? Correct. Miguel -

Re: [Jmol-users] rasmol axes orientation

2004-02-05 Thread RichBall
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:34:34 +0100 (CET), Miguel Howard wrote [snip> > My proposal is to expose a command that would switch the entire > system to right-handed ... both the axes orientation and the rotations. > > Q: Does anyone actually care about this? (Noone ever sees these > things, so maybe

[Jmol-users] rasmol axes orientation

2004-02-05 Thread Miguel Howard
The purpose of this memo is to start a discussion about an 'issue' with axis orientation. I don't think it is that important for the biochemists, but I suspect it will be more important for the crystalographers. As far as I can tell, the combination of axis orientation and rotation commands in Ra