Dear Sage user and developers, First I apologize if you see multiples of this message, but I wanted to reach as much of the community as possible so posted to sage-devel, -edu and -notebook. If there is anywhere else this should be cross listed please let me know.
I'm looking for input on what would be interesting to this community by way of enhancements to Jmol and how it works with Sage or within the notebook. I'm looking for this input because I may be able to get support to devote a month or two to Jmol development next summer aimed specifically at Jmol combined with Sage. The proposal is due December 1. Below is a list of things I was considering working on and wanted input on whether these would be useful to the community. Please comment on these and suggest other things you think would be useful. Bob Hanson (lead Jmol developer) and I would very much like to increase the cooperation between the Jmol project and the Sage project and hope some dedicated time from me will encourage this. The main reason for me to do this is that I use Sage with my upper level Physical Chemistry classes, so am the Jmol developer who is most familiar with Sage. I also developed a new notebook interface for Jmol based on requests from some of the community. This interface is in the testing stage (see trac # 9238: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9238). In addition to being sure that I work on something the community is interested in, I also need a commitment from one or two people who are very familiar with the notebook code to be available for consultation during the months of May, June and July. If any of you can help please send me a private e-mail, using the address below. Thanks. My present ideas in order of interest to me are: 1) Development of a slicer within Jmol. This would allow hiding all but an arbitrary thickness and orientation slice of the 3-D image. This involves both Jmol developments and probably additions to the javascript interface for the notebook. This I believe is reasonably straight forward. 2) Development of a plot4d command allowing time dependent 3-D plots. I believe this requires a little work on Jmol, but mostly a reworking of how sage sends data to Jmol. 3) I am also interested in exploring projections of hypersurfaces. This is probably the beginning of a much larger project and could involve only work in sage or parallel enhancements of sage and Jmol. 4) Reworking the way sage packages data for Jmol so that we could use more of Jmol's internal axes and things of that nature. I have other ideas, but doubt that I could manage more than either #1 or #2 plus a stab at #4 in two months. So if you have other ideas, words of encouragement or discouragement please let me know. Please reply to this discussion except in the case of volunteering to make yourself available as a resource next summer. Thanks, Jonathan Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow Chemistry Department gu...@uwosh.edu UW-Oshkosh Office: 920-424-1326 800 Algoma Boulevard FAX:920-424-2042 Oshkosh, WI 54901 http://www.uwosh.edu/facstaff/gutow -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
