[IPython-dev] Notebook + WebGL = Molecule Drawer?

Rich Stoner stonerri at gmail.com
Tue Mar 19 01:14:38 EDT 2013


Patrick,

I have working examples of Ipython + XTK (https://github.com/xtk/X). It's
not the cleanest implementation but I'll throw it on Github later
tonight/tomorrow.

Best -

Rich



On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Patrick,
>
> Hi, this is really exciting to see people doing things like this.  This
> Fall we will be working on our APIs for this stuff - we are hoping to make
> it easier - please keep in touch as things move forward.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Patrick Fuller <patrickfuller at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I was at Pycon yesterday and saw a really cool IPython notebook + HTML5
>> talk by Matt Davis. Motivated by the talk, I was curious to see if I could
>> get WebGL running via three.js, so I went ahead and wrote an interactive
>> molecule viewer.
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>> FYI, it's a lazy first-pass port of another molecule viewer I wrote<http://www.patrick-fuller.com/molecule-viewer-alpha/>,
>> which is itself a lazy first pass at learning webGL... which leads me to
>> some questions :-)
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    I'm confident that I'm misusing the Javascript and HTML objects. The
>>    Javascript docstring talks about a generated element object, but I
>>    couldn't get jQuery to bind to it. My current selector is
>>    "div.molecule", which runs into some fairly obvious problems when you
>>    draw more than one molecule.
>>     -
>>
>>    I have no idea what the javascript variable scopes look like. Am I in
>>    danger of overwriting something important to IPython?
>>
>> Also, is there any general interest out there in exploring ipython
>> notebook + webgl further? Are there other projects that do so?
>>
>> Thanks for hearing me out (and working on such a cool open-source
>> project!),
>> Pat
>>
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