PORTING LEGACY APPLICATIONS TO IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS - A Case Study

Kenny Gruchalla, Jonathan Marbach, Mark Dubin

2007

Abstract

Immersive virtual environments are becoming increasingly common, driving the need to develop new software or adapt existing software to these environments. We discuss some of the issues and limitations of porting an existing molecular graphics system, PyMOL, into an immersive virtual environment. Presenting macromolecules inside an interactive immersive virtual environment may provide unique insights into molecular structure and improve the rational design of drugs that target a specific molecule. PyMOL was successfully extended to render molecular structures immersively; however, elements of the legacy interactive design did not scale well into three-dimensions. Achieving an interactive frame rate for large macromolecules was also an issue. The immersive system was developed and evaluated on both a shared-memory parallel machine and a commodity cluster.

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in Harvard Style

Gruchalla K., Marbach J. and Dubin M. (2007). PORTING LEGACY APPLICATIONS TO IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS - A Case Study . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: GRAPP, ISBN 978-972-8865-72-6, pages 179-184. DOI: 10.5220/0002078401790184

in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp07,
author={Kenny Gruchalla and Jonathan Marbach and Mark Dubin},
title={PORTING LEGACY APPLICATIONS TO IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS - A Case Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: GRAPP,},
year={2007},
pages={179-184},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002078401790184},
isbn={978-972-8865-72-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: GRAPP,
TI - PORTING LEGACY APPLICATIONS TO IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS - A Case Study
SN - 978-972-8865-72-6
AU - Gruchalla K.
AU - Marbach J.
AU - Dubin M.
PY - 2007
SP - 179
EP - 184
DO - 10.5220/0002078401790184