I came across this great post at the SLED (Second Life in EDucation) Blog:
If you’ve ever seen a floating molecule in Second Life, chances are it was created by Dr. Andrew Lang, a mathematical physicist at Oral Roberts University, otherwise known as Hiro Sheridan in-world. Hiro recently demonstrated working prototypes of several different tools in collaboration with Jean-Claude Bradley, a chemistry professor at Drexel University, known as Horace Moody. The demonstrations included a molecule rezzer that allows a user to name a compound in text chat and watch as it builds itself in front of you atom by atom, and a docking simulator that demonstrates how molecules bond together to form more complex structures.
Check out the rest of the article and more images here.
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Another example of some visualization software that could be used is Ubigraph from Ubiety Labs. They have some interesting videos on how someone can visualize the traffic flow on a Web site in real-time and offer some ideas for possible applications. I had the chance to watch a demonstration of the software by the Waterloo professor who created it.
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We’ve collected all these exhibits on my laboratory space on the South East corner of ACS island (in the skylab) for convenience. There are also some posters there from some of my students in my organic chemistry class.
Comment by Jean-Claude Bradley - June 25, 2008 7:23 pm