Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: landman@hanami.eng.sun.com (Howard A. Landman x61391) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: ANCHOR software from Fujitsu Message-ID: Date: 14 Dec 89 04:04:27 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 12 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu I had a few hours to kill at the Sun User's Group meeting yesterday, so I wandered around the vendor booths. Imagine my surprise when I came across a booth demonstrating chemical design software! Here's a brief rundown - this does not imply my endorsement of this product in any way. I only had a few minutes to look at it. Running on a SparcStation 1 it seemed a little slow, and it was pretty clear that they were just going through a canned demo, not actually doing any computation. The "3D" display was not true 3D, just depth-cued. They had the choice of ball and stick, skeleton, or dot-cloud representation (and more) for atoms/bonds. Balls were shaded. The upper limit for graphics is about 1000 atoms per molecule.