ideas for 3D stereoscopic view

[oddman]

Has anyone played with 3D representation of the molecules? I mean as in stereoscopic vision.

I've created pairs of still pictures which when viewed side-by-side, cross eyed, they provide true 3D view.
(Crossing eyes, or left eye to left pic & right eye to right pic are standard techniques to have separate images meld into one. It takes some practice.)

I've captured short videos of a molecule which I set to slowly rotate horizontally. Then I made a duplicate of the video file so that two instances of QuickTime could run side by side - showing the same movie essentially. I synchronized the two... except that one of them I single-framed ahead of the other such that the molecule rotated slightly. This represents the two slightly different views that each eye would get if they were looking at the physical molecule model.

With the QuickTime still-frames carefully adjusted, perhaps 3-5 frames apart, the two images were perfectly stereoscopic.

It's even possible to run the two QuickTime viewers and I was able to obtain a short 3D moving image.

[uncle_fungus]

Yes. It's possible to do this with almost all of the proteins that FAH has worked on.

Go to the jmol FAH website (http://jmol.sourceforge.net/fah/) and load up a project into the viewer, you can then change the display to stereoscopic.

If you have an xyz file for an interesting project you can convert it to a pdb file fairly easily, then you can mess about with it in any number of molecular viewers.