VRML in Chemistry
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Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML) in Chemistry Omer Casher,a Christopher Leachb, Christopher S. Pageb and Henry S. Rzepa* b
VRML IN CHEMISTRY
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VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) has the potential to be the future display language for 3-D images on the web. Chemistry is a topic seen as being particularly apt for display by VRML. Chemical and Engineering News recently featured an article on VRML and other WWW developments in chemistry.The technology is still in the early stages of development, but the basic ideas is that one may imbed 3-D objects into a VRML document is a maner to allow various standard manipulations of the object in real time. In order to make VRML documents work, one needs a VRML browser. So, we will not comment further except to point you to some interesting sites. We will post new developments and examples as we become aware of them.
VRML in chemistry
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Visualisation of complex 3D structures of molecules and in particular their dynamics is difficult. VRML offers a cheap and easy way to solve this problem. In the following examples the MATLAB VRML Molecule Toolbox is used. The VMT page also contains the m-files used to construct the examples below.
