Chemistry on the Internet: IV. Designing Animated GIF Images for Chemistry WWW Pages

TCE

The Chemical Educator

ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)

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Abstract Volume 1 Issue 4 (1996), S1430-4171(96)04054-X

Chemistry on the Internet: IV. Designing Animated GIF Images for Chemistry WWW Pages

Thomas Gardner

Department of Chemistry, Tennessee State University, 3500 John A. Merritt Blvd., Nashville, TN 37209

Published online: 30 September1996

Abstract. In the second installment of this column, various methods of presenting chemical images on a WWW site were described, including ways to depict molecular animation (e.g., vibrations and reactions) using MDL's Chemscape Chime and concatenated XYZ structure files. Aside from Chime, there are several other ways to present animated movies on the WWW, including Java and JavaScript, Macromedia's Shockwave, and by embedding animation files such as Motion Picture Expert Group (MPEG), Video for Windows (AVI), or Apple's QuickTime (QT or MOV). A simpler method of presenting animations, which does not require special software helpers or plug-ins for viewing, is through the use of animated GIF images.

Key Words: Computers in Chemistry; Internet; World Wide Web, WWW; computer; images

(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: chemnet@acad.tnstate.edu)

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