Re: [pygame] Collision Detection with Pygame/OpenGL Surfaces

["Ulf Ekström" <uekstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

> atomic bond folding within a molecule does not follow the same physical
> laws as solid balls with joints.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_dynamics#Empirical_potentials

> It's a real shame that Folding@Home has never posted any of their source
> code.

You can easily find open source molecular dynamics codes - Gromacs, Tinker etc.

But for just drawing bonds you can use some element specific distance
cutoff, that's how all the other programs do it.

Regards,
Ulf