Integrating molecular modeling tools and virtual reality engines: an architecture for a highly immersive molecular modeling (HIMM) environment

Author

Drees, Robert C. ; Pleiss, J. ; Schmid, Rolf D. ; Roller, Dieter

Author_Institution

Inst. of Tech. Biochem., Stuttgart Univ., Germany

fYear

1998

fDate

22-26 Jun 1998

Firstpage

391

Lastpage

392

Abstract

A software architecture for the integration of computer aided molecular modeling (CAMM) tools and virtual reality (VR) engines is presented. This approach has been chosen in order to provide with minimal effort a flexible highly immersive molecular modeling (HIMM) environment. The HIMM environment is built from readily available objects, that is CAMM tools and VR engines. Following the object oriented adapter design approach objects can be easily added or exchanged. A prototype has been implemented to estimate strength and limitations of the HIMM architecture

Keywords

chemistry computing; molecular configurations; object-oriented programming; software engineering; user interfaces; virtual reality; computer aided molecular modeling; highly immersive molecular modeling environment; object oriented adapter design; prototype; software architecture; virtual reality engines; Biochemistry; Computer architecture; Computer science; Data structures; Electrical capacitance tomography; Engines; Geometry; Object oriented modeling; Prototypes; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Graphics International, 1998. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Hannover

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8445-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CGI.1998.694289

Filename

694289