ALTERNATIVE MOLECULAR VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES

该子项目是利用 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源。子项目和 研究者（PI）可能从另一个NIH来源获得主要资金， 因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。列出的机构是 中心，不一定是研究者的机构。 交互式分子可视化和分析通常使用台式计算机、标准三维视频游戏图形以及鼠标和键盘输入设备来完成。 这个标准平台非常适合二维可视化，但对于查看和操作三维模型并不理想。 各种各样的替代技术可以补充这种传统的计算机图形环境，并实现更有效的三维数据分析方法。 所有这些方法目前都相当奇特，最多只有百分之几的分子结构研究人员使用。 该项目探索和推广可能成为下一代分析方法的技术。 我们正在探索的具体技术包括使用机械工程的快速原型机器打印三维塑料模型，制作透镜状图像，这些图像是打印的场景，无需特殊眼镜即可提供深度感知，使用平板显示器和偏振或快门眼镜的新立体显示器，使用任天堂Wii游戏控制器或网络摄像头跟踪用户头部运动以控制场景中的视角，使用6个自由度的输入设备来旋转和移动场景中的对象。 我们在资源中心网站的“技术说明”部分中提供了许多这些技术研究的结果。 http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/Outreach/technotes/index.html

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Interactive molecular visualization and analysis is typically done using desktop computers, standard 3-dimensional video game graphics, and mouse and keyboard input devices. This standard platform is well-suited for 2-dimensional visualization but is not ideal for viewing and manipulating 3-dimensional models. A wide variety of alternative technologies can complement this traditional computer graphics environment and enable more productive methods of 3-dimensional data analysis. All of these methods are currently rather exotic being use by at most a few percent of molecular structure researchers. This project explores and promotes technologies that may become next-generation analysis methods. Specific technologies we are exploring include printing 3-dimensional plastic models using rapid-prototyping machines from mechanical engineering, making lenticular images which are printed scenes that provide depth perception without special glasses, new stereo displays using flat panel displays and polarized or shutter glasses, using the Nintendo Wii game controller or web cameras to track user head-motion to control view angle in a scene, using 6 degree-of-freedom input devices for rotation and moving objects in a scene. We present the results of many of these technology studies in a "Technology Notes" section of our Resource center web site. http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/Outreach/technotes/index.html