CRCD Tools Home Page
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Netscape / Internet Explorer / VRML Cosmo Plugin /
JWave / NPIB / WebLab Viewer / AtomView / CCC_atom
Objective: Provide tools for the remote-site user and instructions on
how to install and create interactive NPIB & JWave server interfaces.
Web Browsers
For tools such as Netscape or Internet Explorer (IE) we encourage the
user to go to the appropriate web site and download the current version of
Netscape or IE that will run on their particular SUN, SGI, Windows98, NT,
etc. operating system. For covenience we have archived the 4.5 version of
Netscape Communicator and a compatible version of Cosmo VRML Player that will
work on the students' Windows computer.
Netscape 4.05: Download /
Netscape 4.5: Download /
VRML plugins: 1) Windows: Cosmo:
Download
, 2) Solaris:VRweb:
Installation
NPIB / JWave
(creating your own interactive interface)
NPIB
(Network Programing Interface Builder) forms are used in the
section on "Interactive Computer Program Modules" for each of the scales: "Nano" /
"Micro" / "Macro" (Continuum). In this section links: 1) download, 2)
installation instructions, and 3) tutorials on "How-to-use" and "How-to-create",
have been created so that others can create NPIB on their Web server.
JWave
is also used in the section on "Interactive Computer Program Modules"
for each of the scales to create an interactive interface that works best with
existing legacy PV-Wave procedure files (*.pro). Because JWave is commercial
off the shelf software, VNI's Web pages have extensive documentation on JWave
with examples. Here we give only one example, "Polar Plots of Elastic Properties",
and show how to use both JWave and NPIB for comparison.
NPIB:1.5 /
Tutorials,
1.6 /
User's Guide/
Download/
Install/
Tutorials,
JWave3.0:
VNI/
User's Guide/
Tutorials
"Polar Plots of Elastic Properties":
Working Archive:
1) NPIB 1.5 & 1.6
2) JWave3.0
ViewerLite / Atomview / CCC_atom
Viewerlite is used in the "nano" scale section of
the CRCD Web pages. The user can download a copy of
ViewerLite from
the pages Accelrys Inc.Web
home pages. For those unfortunate enough to have an immersive CAVE-like environment
at their university we have also provided a copy of
AtomView,
a CAVE application that works with the same file format as WebLab Viewer which allows
the user to load these models into the CAVE. A
student project provides some background information and how to use AtomView.
We have created a version of
Atomview that will run with the CAVE Collaborative Console (
CCC), called
CCC_atom .
Again for those interested we have provided a downloadable version for both AtomView and
CCC_atom with installation instructions and tutorials for the end user.
OLD-WebLab Viewer: Download /
Sample Molecule file:Download
Viewerlite: Download /
Sample Molecule file:
Download
AtomView:
Download /
Installation and Functionality
CCC_atom:
Download /
Installation /
Tutorials
CCC
For loading simple models into the CAVE and collaborating with others at
remote site workstations we have also provide a link to the Collaborative CAVE Console
(CCC).
The CCC enables researchers and educators to collaborate with each other over the network
with a CAVE-like simulator running on desktop SGI workstations. This collaboration can
include CAVEs, I-Desks, Walls as well as workstations. A complete description,
download instructions, installation instructions, and tutorials are
provided at the
CCC Web pages. We extended
CCC to include Atomview which we call
CCC_atom.
Contact: Dr Ron Kriz
Created 1/30/00 | Revised 2/2/00
http://www.jwave.vt.edu/crcd/tools/tools.html