Graphics and Visualizations

• 3D Site
  An extensive link list to resources on the Virtual Reality Modeling Language.
• Amazing Science at the Roxy
  This server is a place where you can look at and download physical science activities. There are two major types of materials available. There are activities that are aimed towards the student and are available in the areas labelled The Chemistry Laboratory,The Observatory and The Physics Laboratory.
• Amino Acid Database
  Includes a 3-D image of each amino acid in the DB.
• Atomic Theory
  A clickable periodic table serves JPEG images of hydrogenic wave functions. 3D Models of Atomic Orbitals are presented in VRML/Webspace format.
• Biochemistry Graphics
  A collection of animated and still graphics which illustrates significant biochemical concepts and processes.
• Brookhaven Protein Data Bank
  The Brookhaven PDB gopher hole!
• Chemistry Animated Reaction Mechanisms
  ChARMs is being developed by the School of Chemistry with the assistance of the Science Multimedia Teaching Unit and the Interactive Multimedia Learning Unit. It will be used by lecturers as an interactive visual aid to teaching reaction mechanim concepts to chemistry students.
• Chemistry Art Gallery
  This site in Finland contains spectacular visualization and animations in chemistry done at the Visualization and Animation Laboratory at CSC.
• ChemViz
  The ChemViz group at NCSA has, within an NSF sponsored program, developed material which can put high-powered computing and communications tools into the hands of high school teachers and their students. These materials allow high schoolers and their teachers to do their own research by visualizing atomic and molecular orbitals using computational methods. There is also an FTP site associated with the ChemViz project.
• Chemistry Clip Art
  Simple black-and-white (1 bit) freeware chemistry-related clip art. Organized in a HyperCard stack or MacPaint files.
• Clipart of Common Laboratory Glassware
  Clipware is a collection of clipart of common laboratory glassware, provided to you at no charge by CambridgeSoft Corporation and Ace Glass Incorporated. You must own a copy of CS ChemDraw version 3.0 or later to use this clipart, which is provided as a ChemDraw Template document for ease of use. All glassware is in EPS format for the highest output resolution. Also, all glassware shares the same standard joint sizes, so that different pieces may be combined to form complicated arrangements.
• Hyperactive Molecules
  This is a collection of molecules from servers around the world which can be viewed interactively. Turn off in-lined images before going to the site in England to minimize transfer time. If you want to view a molecule just click on the placeholder icon.
• Images of Molecular Models
  These images are pictures of models built with kits sold by Indigo Instruments
• MathMol - Mathematics and Molecules
  The main objective of MathMol is to provide students, teachers, researchers and the general public with information about the rapidly growing fields of molecular modeling and related areas.
• MicroScapes - The Gallery
  This page, created and maintained by AT&T, contains a number of electron micrographs of crystals, surfaces, etc.
• MidasPlus
  UCSF MidasPlus is an advanced molecular modeling system developed by the Computer Graphics Laboratory (CGL) at the University of California, San Francisco. The software is distributed as documented source code to serve as both a starting point and training tool for others interested in doing their own software development. There is also an image database for MidasPlus available at the same site.
• Molecular Animations
  A variety of molecular animations/simulations are available at this site, covering conformational analyses, reactions, vibrations, etc. Both animations and multistructure XYZ files are provided, enabling movies or '4D'-simulations to be viewed. The latter will require a special player such as ReView [demo] or XMol .
• Molecular Animation Movies
  Real time animation with JAVA - a molecular dynamics simulation running on your own computer. Make your own animations with interactive 3D scenarios. The first WWW application of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) in Chemistry. The movies are generated with the IRIX 5.2 moviemaker utility from Silicon Graphics and can be viewed using the IRIX 5.2 movieplayer application. The movies are also available in mpeg format (reduced quality).
• Molecular Animations
  An animated illustraton of the SN2 reaction between methoxide anion and iodomethane. This animation can currently be viewed only with special players such as XMol or ReView [demo].
• Molecular Clinic
  By Seiko Mikami. Interesting, but the usefulness is questionable.
• Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Large Systems
  The objective of this project is to perform molecular dynamics simulations on extremely large systems, consisting of up to 10 to the 6th atoms, and to analyze the results in real time.
• Molecules-R-Us
  A hypertext-based table of contents of the Brookhaven Protein Databank. Allows on-the-fly generation of 3D-images in various formats from the enormous database.
• NanoWorld
  Images from the Center for Microscopy and Microanalysis, University of Queensland, Australia, an interdisciplinary research and service facility dedicated to an understanding of the structure and composition of all materials at atomic, molecular, cellular and macromolecular scales.
• NCSA Digital Information System - Chemistry
  Visualizations of various chemical reactions and phenomena.
• NIH Guide to Molecular Modeling
  The NIH Guide to Molecular Modeling is being developed by members of the Computational Molecular Biology Section (CMB) of NIH's Division of Computer Research and Technology (DCRT). This project is part of an overall effort to help educate NIH researchers and others in the theory and practice of molecular modeling. There is also a text version of this page.
• NIH Molecular Modeling Home Page
  Intended as a centralized source of information concerning the methods and biological applications of molecular modeling. Like the page above, this one has a text counterpart. Requires Netscape for viewing.
• Protein Science Kinemages
  A 'kinemage' [kinetic image] is a scientific illustration presented as an interactive computer display. Operations on the displayed kinemage respond within a fraction of a second: the entire image can be rotated in real time, parts of the display can be turned on or off, any point can be identified by picking it, and the change between different forms can be aninmated. Kinemages are proposed as a subtype of the chemical MIME standard with the specification "chemical/x-kinemage" and file extension "kin". Kinemages, their history, and the proposed MIME standard are described in mime_kin.txt in the MIME_kin directory of the Protein Science gopher server.
• RasMol Home Page
  RasMol is free molecular visualization software, great for small molecules but is especially amazing for macromolecules (proteins, DNA, RNA) or macromolecular assemblies (viruses, lipid bilayers). This site provides the software itself, a gallery of images produced by RasMol, educational scripts (movies) for projection in lectures or for self-study, links to class web sites which employ RasMol, and to other free molecular visualization software.
• Representation of Molecular Models Rendering Techniques
  This is a nice tutorial on the ways that molecules can be represented by computer imaging. Includes discussion on structures, surfaces, rendering, etc.
• Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
  An STM image gallery and more from The Visualization lab of IBM.
• Senses Bureau - The Wilson Group)
  Contains visualisations related to teaching of general and physical chemistry at the University of California at San Diego.
• Silicon Graphics Teaching Laboratory
  Contains a course on molecular modelling and information on MacroModel.
• UK Chemistry Database Service
  The primary aim of the service is to help chemists solve their problems. This is done by providing chemical databases, help, training and information - free of charge to all UK "academics".
• UK SuperJanet Demonstrations
  Quicktime Movies, playable on either Mac or MS Windows using appropriate software.
• Videos for Chemistry
  The School of Chemistry, Leeds University has a number of video demonstrations that are uses to supplement their own teaching and which can be supply at reasonable cost (roughly USD 45.00 per hour of video including teacher notes) to other educational establishments.
• Visualization of Biomolecules
  Overhead slides for a short lecture on the title subject. The slides are in the form of HTML documents which can be viewed with a WWW-browser (Netscape 2.0 recommended). The lecture can serve as an introduction to Chemical MIME, RasMol and Kinemage.
• VRLM in Chemistry
  A new technique to provide chemistry related information is presented. The approach is based on the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) which extends the WWW interface with the additional ability to visualize 3D object oriented scenarios and interact with the basic elements.
• WebSpace Author Home
  WebSpace Author is a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use application that provides all the tools needed to add compelling, high-performing 3D content to a Web site.

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