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On Sunday 27 November 2005 22:47, Markus Dittrich wrote: |
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> On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: |
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> > I would like to propose the addition of a new category - sci-vis. The |
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> > category is intended for scientific visualisation tools. Many of these |
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> > are currently in media-gfx and I don't think they belong with photo |
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> > editors, image conversion tools etc. The category is quite big already |
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> > and most of the ebuilds in there are maintained by quite different herds. |
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> +1 from me! This will make it much easier to track |
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> things down. |
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> Depending on the "definition" of visualisation and hence sci-vis |
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> this category could also include |
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> sci-chemistry/pymol |
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> and possibly |
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> sci-chemistry/molden |
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> since both visualize molecules. Particularly pymol doesn't |
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> seem to really fit in sci-chemistry since it is geared toward |
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> biomolecules and could as well be in sci-biology. The same |
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> will hold for vmd once I am done with the ebuild. |
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I was hoping to keep it as wide as possible so as to include things like that. |
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For example gwyddion is an SPM visualisation app. That is why I was going |
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with vis rather than plot or graph etc. So I would be in favour of adding |
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them to the list. |
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