Molecular balls

[bigben]

Hi All

Just experimenting with some data visualization ideas.

Made a demo clip setup, exported it and then created a database to populate a new clip with extra objects.  It's pretty crude, and not necessarily the way you'd load molecular models. It was just a handy source of XYZ data with objects (atoms) with different attributes for setting up the data structures.

Shaders for the spheres are external to the object node so that they're easier to link.  This is chlorophyll a

[Mahnmut]

Cool Idea!
Now add some quantum haze.
Cheers,
J

[cyphyr]

Very interesting, looking forward to see how this develops

[bigben]

It wasn't too hard to come up with a practical limit.  Having thousands of objects in a population is one thing... having thousands of object nodes will quickly grind things to a halt. If you were specifically looking at molecular models I'd go with Blender and XYZ import plugin (http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Import-Export/XYZ)

I was thinking along the line of an animation of a small'ish point cloud (using spheres instead of squares) but it was too much. Added an "atom" column to the point cloud data and imported it into Blender using the above plugin and it loaded but I cancelled the OBJ export at 5Gb.  Maybe cubes.

It'd be nice if we could specify an XYZ list for a population but there may not be enough applications to warrant the effort.

[bigben]

Cool Idea!
Now add some quantum haze.
Cheers,
J

hmmm... a molecular model consisting of planets with atmospheres. That could have possibilities.

[Mahnmut]

That´s what I thought.
cheers,
J