dh04000
March 15th, 2011, 08:35 PM
Let me begin this by saying that I am not a developer. I am a scientist. A biochemist to be exact. And as you'd imagine, I do alot of teaching to students in chemistry. One of the big problems in chemistry is teach the concept of orbital and bonding. Visually is the only way to really get this across to students. I use Avogadro from the software center to teach bonding and show molecules..... but I lack a good way to show atomic and molecular orbitals......
THEN I found this program. http://www.orbitals.com/orb/index.html
Orbital viewer. It looks to be exactly what I need to help me teach students! The problem is there is only an old updated windows binary available..... but the owner has put up the source code for the project up in a zip file. I have no idea what the license on this piece of software is, but I assume something permissive considering the available source code.
I emailed the guy today asking for the license and the permission to distribute.
If the license was ok, and I got permission, would there be anyone interested in porting this to linux/ubuntu? I assume a recompiling is all that would be needed. Anyone up to the challenge?
Thanks,
dh04000.
EDIT: I was mistaken, no source code available. I'd have to ask the original developer for it.
THEN I found this program. http://www.orbitals.com/orb/index.html
Orbital viewer. It looks to be exactly what I need to help me teach students! The problem is there is only an old updated windows binary available..... but the owner has put up the source code for the project up in a zip file. I have no idea what the license on this piece of software is, but I assume something permissive considering the available source code.
I emailed the guy today asking for the license and the permission to distribute.
If the license was ok, and I got permission, would there be anyone interested in porting this to linux/ubuntu? I assume a recompiling is all that would be needed. Anyone up to the challenge?
Thanks,
dh04000.
EDIT: I was mistaken, no source code available. I'd have to ask the original developer for it.