Hi Sage-Devel, This is an email from the Jmol list in response to my questions about Jmol and its relationship to java3d and jogle.
-- William ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Charles(Qian) Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Dec 25, 2007 7:10 AM Subject: Re: [Jmol-developers] Jmol-developers Digest, Vol 19, Issue 6 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 3. Are you aware of jmol being used for applications outside of > chemistry? E.g., applications > to general mathematical visualization? I have been interested in using Jmol's graphics engine in physics and engineering simulations. I have done some, but limited, work based on v11. I don't see any problem of using Jmol to render views for discrete systems, such as the solar system, or construct surfaces based on discrete points, as enabled by Bob's excellent work on surfaces (recently, I had a need to construct wave surface from particles for a smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulation, and I was thinking that Jmol might be able to do that). In addition to rendering views, we also want to add interactivity supports. Basically, we are interested in an interactive model construction environment that would allow users to draw 3D shapes directly on the Jmol canvas that can then be assigned different physical properties. Along this line, I built a limited set of molecular construction tools, inlcuding an extrusion tool for drawing cylinders and cuboids that reflect particles in a molecular dynamics simulation. See the following link for an example: http://mw2.concord.org/tmp.jnlp?address=http://mw2.concord.org/public/test/jmolgl.cml (This link will launch our Molecular Workbench software, Java 5.0+ is required.) The work I had done is mostly experimental, because I was subject to time limitation. I would be interested in seeing some development in forging a Jmol graphics library (JmolGL? JGL is too close to JoGL). And I can testify that it may have qualified that, particularly for its outstanding performance and pure-Java portability (the two main reasons that many of us coming all the way to this point dropped Java3D and JoGL). Just my two cents. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
