CanvasMol
Dev tools
molecule viewer
SHOW HN2010
72points
11comments
#24of 370 in 2010
Top 7%of 2010 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
4 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Performance: 3 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive for a browser-based viewer
From 1 comment
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…
kurtosis on HN
Objections
Slow performance with multiple molecules or large structures
From 3 comments
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…
kurtosis on HNLooks pretty cool, although it makes my N cpu y.yGHz machine crawl. It's sad that 10 years ago(?) people where doing this kind of things with java applets and it actually worked…
slug on HNPeriodic 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…
bd on HN
Browser memory and garbage collection issues in Firefox
From 1 comment
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…
bd on HN
Requests
Permalinks to specific molecules
From 1 comment
``` very cool. one missing feature I have noticed is a permalink option. so one can have a specific one (or more) loaded with the page. e.g.…
tzury on HN
Export to PNG or PDF
From 1 comment
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…
kurtosis on HN
Better protein data bank support
From 1 comment
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…
kurtosis on HN
Questions
What is the periodic table window for
From 1 comment
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…
kurtosis on HN
Alternatives named
PyMOL
From 1 comment
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…
kurtosis on HN
Jmol
From 1 comment
10 years ago people were still using Chime. Then Jmol arrived and instead of having to install a proprietary browser plugin, we could wait 30 seconds for the JVM to load. Now we…
groaner on HN