At 04:03 PM 7/7/96 -0500, Eric Martz wrote:
>Jacky: Please forward this to the Principles of Protein Science web course
>PPS96 email list.
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>Although this MD animation has not yet made it onto MDLI's 'cool examples'
>page, Tim kindly provided it to me and gave me permission to share it with
>you. You can download Chime from www.mdli.com (installation is extremely
>simple) and then use Netscape to view
>http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/private. BE WARNED that there was a
>bug in the Chime released in May (at least for Windows 3.1) which caused it
>to stop working a month before the announced July 31st. You can get a more
>recent version from MDLI which fixes this. Unfortunately, the more recent
>version has a new bug which corrupts the top portion of the image.
We have posted a new version of the Windows 3.1 version
of Chime which corrects this bug. It is available at our web
site:
http://www.mdli.com/chemscape/chime/download.html
I am interested in expanding the multi-frame animation
capabilities of chime, and would be interested in any request/
ideas that anyone has.
-tim
>Nevertheless, you can see enough of the animation to see what will be
>possible with Chime. I particularly recommend changing the display of the
>bottom image of 'alpha helix unfolding' to spacefill. (Click the right
>mouse button, or on Macs, hold down the button, till the familiar
>RasMol-like menu appears.) I have sent an email inquiry to Raul Cachau
>asking how this XYZ animation was constructed, but have not received a
>reply.
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