On Sep 9, 6:52 am, Jonathan <gu...@uwosh.edu> wrote: > In theory this could be added to the javascript functions being > included with the update to the Jmol interface which is coming with > the switch to the new flask notebook, but I'm not sure this is the > best solution. > > The new interface will include the ability to download a .jmol file > to your computer.
Yes, I agree that in practice that may well be a very good solution for people who frequently do this and are familiar with the jmol toolchain. In principle, sage already offers capability like this because it should be able to export a 3d scene as an "x3d" file (the last time I looked there were some things broken about it), which can be loaded in all kinds of software, including Blender. Quite possibly, Jmol has a unique place in sage because it displays 3d scenes interactively and does so (seemingly?) integrated in the notebook. Regardless of what backend one want to use in Sage to produce the final rendering, selecting a camera position is often done best interactively. So, if jmol can do that and hand the camera position back to sage, that would be great. It would allow seamless integration with the tachyon raytracer This is the kind of functionality I think one *expects* to be present. It may be that it wouldn't actually get used and that people are quite happy just cutting and pasting screen shots. One application would be to give a simplified scene to jmol as a preview, get the camera position, and then use tachyon to render the final picture (possibly with millions of spheres or something else beyond the scope of jmol). -- 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
