Re: 3D visualisation software

 Dear Luca -
 MSI's software developer's kit does exactly what you want. It includes
 an API set to visualize iso-surfaces, molecular structure, trajectories,
 normal modes, plots/graphs, etc. It also allows you in a few steps to put
 an interface together to any computational chemistry code.
 For general information about this toolkit visit:
 http://www.msi.com/support/sdk/
 for specific information on plotting iso-surfaces visit:
 http://www.msi.com/support/sdk/users/examples/iso/README.html
 Regards - Ton
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 Ton van Daelen            tvd &$at$& msi.com
 Molecular Simulations, Inc. San Diego
 > Dear CCLers, although I'm pretty sure this question has been already
 > posed (and I beg your pardon for posing it again), I have to ask about a
 > 3D visualisation tool. I worked with SciAn, which is pretty good indeed,
 > but the only existing version needs Z buffer and DGL. Looking on the net
 > I found a software called vis5d, pretty good the same but tuned for
 > metereological data and I found too time-expensive to adapt it to
 > visualize orbitals, electronic density and so on. I'm using molden but I
 > would like to find out soemthing more general (I'm trying to use ELF
 > also, and this feature is not implemented in molden).
 > The software I'm looking for should manage x,y,z,function_value in order
 > to give isosurfaces of the function I'm trying to plot. Something not
 > strictly platform-dependant would be very fine.
 > Thank you for all the information you will provide.
 >                      Luca
 >
 > Dr. Luca Pedocchi
 > Laboratorio di Chimica Fisica delle Interfasi
 > via Cavour, 82 - 50129 Firenze - ITALY