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Re: Molecular simulation on an iPad
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 13 Feb 2015 19:56:57 -0800
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On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 07:29:11PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> Apropos of not much, last night I attended a lecture by Thomas
> Gray, former UI designer for Mathematica and now Touch Press.  His
> lecture was about his picture book "Molecules", and the related
> $14 iPad app.  He spent five minutes showing off the molecular
> simulation, a ball-and-spring model based on NAMD.  Gray grabbed
> a few atoms with his fingers, set the models to vibrating, then
> changed temperature or display speed (typically 120fs/s ).  Cute.

A sufficiently advanced demo is indistinguishable from ...

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Konstantin Olchanski
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