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

[Patrick Fuller]

Hm, the xtk-basic-example suffers from the same issue I'm having - if you
run the same sample code in two different cells, it doesn't know what to
do. The easy solution is to carve out a div independent of the notebook
flow and use that to display all js stuff. I'll just do that.


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Patrick Fuller <patrickfuller at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks, guys!
>
> I wrapped my js example in some Python and made a repo:
> https://github.com/patrickfuller/imolecule. I'll read through the
> examples posted and see if I can clean up my approach. Going off of the
> browser screenshot alone, I like the idea of generating a single static div
> to display the output of js execution.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Here is the most up to date IPython repo with XTK stuff:
>>
>> https://github.com/ellisonbg/ipython/tree/xtk
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Rich Stoner <stonerri at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Patrick et. al,
>>>
>>> Here is the xtk-ipython repo:
>>> https://github.com/richstoner/xtk-ipython-examples
>>>
>>> I think that, as part of the plans to eliminate arbitrary js execution
>>> at the notebook interface, building out wrappers around the larger js
>>> frameworks makes a lot of sense. This is the approach taken here:
>>> https://github.com/fperez/xtk-ipython
>>>
>>>
>>> Best -
>>>
>>> Rich
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Patrick Fuller <patrickfuller at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> I think that my little demo is more about the potential of webGL +
>>>> IPython than about the molecule drawer itself. If a bigger project like XTK
>>>> can be ported easily, it could open up a lot of doors for IPython tools.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, I'll look through the xtk + ipython examples soon and throw
>>>> this molecule drawer idea into a new repo. If webgl + ipython picks up,
>>>> it'll be around.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Pat
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Rich Stoner <stonerri at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
>>>>>> bgranger at calpoly.edu and ellisonbg at gmail.com
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