[seul-edu] [Fwd: Educational app for chemistry]

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

I received this this morning from Jean-Pierre:

Jean-Pierre Demailly wrote:

> Dear Doug,
>
> I'd like to inform SEUL-Edu of the availability of xpovchem-1.41 on:
>
> ftp://ftp.ac-grenoble.fr/ge/chemistry
> (a 3.4Mb download)
>
> This program creates beautiful 3D models of molecules of professional
> quality -- the models have been used in scientific publications by
> chemistry labs. The molecules can be described in essentially any format:
> indeed, xpovchem includes the "babel" package which recognizes about 50
> different molecular formats.
>
> Xpovchem's main engine is Paul Thiessen's PovChem-1.0 program, and
> the rendering is made with the povray raytracer; xpovchem itself is
> just a (very) simple GUI frontend to these components.
>
> Xpovchem is released under the GPL, and according to Paul Thiessen's
> own statement, "I have decided to make PovChem-1.0 free for any use,
> commercial or otherwise. But it is still copyrighted; neither the
> compiled program nor any part of the source code may be sold for
> profit."
>
> Also included in the package are numerous samples of mineral and organic
> molecules in PDB or MOL2 format.
>
> Notice: the libsx-2.0+ and Xaw95 libraries are needed to compile xpovchem.
> They are also available from the Grenoble FTP site, in
> ftp://ftp.ac-grenoble.fr/ge/Xlibraries
>
> Best regards,
> Jean-Pierre Demailly

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