Journal
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR GRAPHICS & MODELLING
Volume 50, Issue -, Pages 44-49Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2014.03.006
Keywords
Continuum molecular modeling; Visualization; Visual analysis; Unstructured mesh; Numerical solvers
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- State Key Laboratory of Scientific/Engineering Computing, National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences
- Chinese Academy of Sciences and the China NSF [9123010]
- National 863 Project of China [2012AA020403]
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This paper describes the design and function of a visualization tool, VCMM, for visualizing and analyzing data, and interfacing solvers for generic continuum molecular modeling. In particular, an emphasis of the program is to treat the data set based on unstructured mesh as used in finite/boundary element simulations, which largely enhances the capabilities of current visualization tools in this area that only support structured mesh. VCMM is segmented into molecular, meshing and numerical modules. The capabilities of molecular module include molecular visualization and force field assignment. Meshing module contains mesh generation, analysis and visualization tools. Numerical module currently provides a few finite/boundary element solvers of continuum molecular modeling, and contains several common visualization tools for the numerical result such as line and plane interpolations, surface probing, volume rendering and stream rendering. Three modules can exchange data with each other and carry out a complete process of modeling. Interfaces are also designed in order to facilitate usage of other mesh generation tools and numerical solvers. We develop a technique to accelerate data retrieval and have combined many graphical techniques in visualization. VCMM is highly extensible, and users can obtain more powerful functions by introducing relevant plug-ins. VCMM can also be useful in other fields such as computational quantum chemistry, image processing, and material science. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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