Scientific Visualisation with Blender

Published by Bart on January 5th, 2007 in Art

Ralph Jimenez wrote to us about a visualisation he did of the "heme domain of FixL" molecule. The image was an entry for a competition at the University of Colorado and it was selected for an exhibition.

Ralph wrote:

I'm a faculty member in Chemistry at the University of Colorado who has been playing around with and trying to learn how to use Blender for scientific graphics, particularly of molecular models. An image I contributed to the Art in Science/Science in Art competition was selected for the exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and for the on-line gallery. The image was created in two steps: The tructure was read in the Visual Molecular Dynamics Software 1.8.4 and side-chains, cofactor, etc. were created for a wireframe of the 3D model, which was then imported into Blender 2.42 for materials, lighting, raytracing. The result is on this page.

I did mention Blender in the description of the work I submitted to the competition, but they seem to have edited that out, so I thought I'd let you know directly.

Thanks to the Blender team for creating such excellent software! I hope it finds increasing use in scientific graphics.

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1 Ausis Jan 5th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

hm..sad that they censored that thing that this picture is generated with belder..they think with that they can do good promotion to Visual Molecular Dynamics Software…:)But…with VMDS you can just model and that's it…
2 Dalai Felinto Jan 6th, 2007 at 3:41 am

Please don't forgive the "Molecules (pdb-format) to Blender" script by "intermalte", a great project for scientific visualisation.

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=67279
3 Dalai Felinto Jan 6th, 2007 at 4:49 am

edit: forget not forgive
sorry
4 Bart Jan 6th, 2007 at 10:24 am

@Dalai: we'll look into that, thanks!
5 Dalai Felinto Jan 6th, 2007 at 3:41 pm

The new thread about pdb-import is http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=81711
6 Sushil Jan 6th, 2007 at 6:29 pm

Great!
I was thinking of doing this from last week,but did not get sufficient time .
well blender is very powerful software and python scripting is added advantage,
one can make a good molecular viewer as well as molecular analysis software
using blender,and i think this might be the start of that.
7 lueglenn Jan 8th, 2007 at 12:49 am

whew that was great..

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