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Hey this is pretty impressive - for a web browser. It gets a little bogged down when you have 3 molecule windows open, but I'm only using firefox.

What is the point of the periodic table window? Does this have a function?

Something like this would make a very nice interface to the protein data bank..

I'm a frequent pyMOL user and there are many things missing. Can you save to pdf or PNG?




Periodic table shows colors of elements (I used ones from Jmol).

No exports yet, though in Firefox you can save any canvas element as PNG just by right clicking on it. Maybe for other browsers I could add PNG export via data URI.

Proteins are tough. When you get into thousands of atoms, performance is unsatisfactory, it's pushing browsers to limits.

Firefox is especially problematic because of weird memory behavior - it's growing a lot (on simple array assignments) and then it stutters on garbage collecting.

Chrome is much better, though interestingly for the most complex molecules new Opera is the fastest.

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Edit: I added PNG export.


Firefox nightlies run quite well, ~35fps on MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo. No stuttering.

Edit: 60fps for one molecule, 35 for two.


Firefox 3.5 Linux, PhenomII 3GHz (ATI SB700 built-in graphics): two molecules at unsteady rates, mostly 30 to 60 fps. Nice work, thanks.


Chrome ~200fps i7 2.6GHz




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