MOVIEMOL

An Easy-to-Use Molecular Display and Animation Program

Please note that this web site is not being maintained. Please see the web site www.ifm.liu.se/compchem/moviemol for up-to-date information.

Moviemol is a program for visualization and animation of molecular structures for SGI workstations. Moviemol typically takes sets of molecular coordinates and displays each of these sets or frames one after the other to create a "movie". The molecules/atoms/ions are displayed in ball-and-stick form. At any moment during the animation, the molecules can be rotated or translated, magnified or diminished. The input is simple and the program is easy to run. The program also produces very nice postscript images of publication quality.

How to obtain moviemol

The program can be obtained by anonymous ftp from ifm.liu.se. The program is free-of-charge for academic researchers and the price is modest for commercial establishments. The most recent version is 1.3.1.

Silicon Graphics version

A few demonstrations:

These are mpeg movies of the input examples that come with the moviemol program illustrating some typical applications and capabilities.

(0.28 Mb) MD simulation of water wapour at 400K.

(0.29 Mb) MD simulation of an Al(3+) water solution.

(0.47 Mb) A phonon mode in the LiOH·H₂O crystal.

(0.23 Mb) A normal mode in the triflate ion (CF₃SO₃^-).

(0.54 Mb) The crystal structure of RbH₃(SeO₃)₂.

(0.68 Mb) The C₆₀ Buckminster fullerene structure.

More information:

The anonymous-ftp directory for moviemol executables and example files
Another anonymous-ftp site for moviemol
The manual (ascii text)
The manual (postscript)
The default moviemol input format.
How to run moviemol.
Summary of the key stroke actions in the moviemol program.
Summary of the command-line options.
Description of how mpeg movies can be created from moviemol runs.

Authors and Copyright (C) 1998

Lars Ojamäe and Kersti Hermansson
Linköping University and Uppsala University
moviemol@kemi.uu.se

Related and Miscellaneous information:

Other visualization programs
Hyperactive Molecules Using Chemical MIME
Chemist's Art Gallery
The WWW Chemical Structures Database. View the xyz-files with: moviemol -Xmol "filename"

The Moviemol Molecular Animation Program, moviemol@kemi.uu.se