Obviously this is too much work for one person! Duh! In general
I want to run over AVS, OpenDX, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, and Template stuff,
HOOPS, a hundred other software packages, and be the best! Of course,
for people in research this attitude seems crazy. They would say
it is better to spend your time making new things possible rather than
trying to be better at the old things, but my response is first, look
at my Happy Hands system and find out I come from this direction too,
and second making old things better than before does make new things
possible - it is just a lot more work than something like Happy Hands.
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Modelzilla - Improve user interface to make it easier and flashier.
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Vincent Van Mol - Improve user interface to make it easier and flashier.
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Vincent Van Mol - Rewrite internal representation of protein to
make files load faster and use less memory.
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Vincent Van Mol - Speed up geometry generation.
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Vincent Van Mol - Speed up property table assignment.
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Vincent Van Mol - User defined schemes.
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Vincent Van Mol - Expression based element selection.
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Vincent Van Mol - Distance picking
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Vincent Van Mol - Easier labeling system.
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Vincent Van Mol - Disulphide bond maker.
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CAD-Zilla - Nothing too specific - in general would like to turn this
into the most powerful geometrical modeler ever made.
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GridZilla - Ability to read AVS Field files.
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GridZilla - Stream Lines.
Planned Extension Modules
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An animator module - this one is already written and set aside - it
animates the data in the Modelzilla database. It will have the ability
to takes snapshots along the way. Cool, huh? Makes this whole database
concept more useful.
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A moecular dynamics module - We have some molecular dynamics code
in JAVA sitting around in a package called Biomer. It does AMBER force
field dynamics and minimizations. I was considering turning this into a
Modelzilla application. It may hook in well with the animator.
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A space warp module - a way of defining a continuously variable
coordinate system. The vertex arrays of the geometries are transformed
dependant on their location into the warped space. This might be useful for
something.
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X-Fit as a Modelzilla application - The biologists around here use
this program called X-Fit for interpreting crystallographic data. This requires
simple molecular graphics (VVM can do this and much more) and simple isosurfacing
(GridZilla can do this and much more) and some math and logic and gui glue.
X-Fit would be great Modelzilla application, if only someone was willing
to do the rather drudgerous task of porting it to JAVA and then replacing
graphics code with Modelzilla invocations.
If only
if(((I was a PI) || (someone had any vision around here))
&& (we had some other people programming in JAVA) ){
Modelzilla would be a tremendous boon to scientific and engineering community
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