The three-dimensional visualization of chemical substances is a real art. New software facilitates das. But the times in which researchers had access to pencil are not too long ago ..
to understand chemical structures is a complicated business. The simplest materials are relatively easy to describe and visualize, but even for medium-sized molecules, it quickly becomes very difficult.
For this reason, chemists for decades for new visualization methods by which complex 3-D structures can bring on two-dimensional paper pages and screens. Charles Harrison of the University of Oxford has now engaged in a new study that have changed how this method. The vorelektronische time is not too long ago. “Many scientific experts still real authors of Rotring pens, plastic stencils and templates were Letraset Between the late 70s and mid-80s.” In collaboration with professional illustrators so often revealed highly complicated and yet beautiful to look at pictures. That all changed in the 80 years with the development of the personal computer and software for novel chemical visualization. Harrison mentions, among other things, the company CambridgeSoft, which was founded in 1986 and ChemDraw designed for the Apple Macintosh. Since then, visualization software has improved tremendously. It is now routine for chemists to replicate their structures to be investigated in the same three-dimensional computer and then manipulate those images freely. Thus, certain atoms and their compounds can be highlighted, camera angles and colors can be customized. However, is still creating high quality images a tremendously detailed and time-consuming work. This results, for example, for title pages of scientific journals, real works of art. What the study by Harrison and his team is not covering is the step to video and animation in chemistry. The interactions of molecules can thus represent even better. <- AUTHOR MARKER DATA BEGIN -> ( TR online ) / <- RSPEAK_STOP -> (bsc)<- RSPEAK_START -> <- AUTHOR DATA MARKER END ->
