From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Wed Apr 22 05:17:01 2009
From: "Sten Nilsson Lill stenil ~ chem.gu.se" <owner-chemistry::server.ccl.net>
To: CCL
Subject: CCL:G: Making movies from molecular vibrations easily
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Sent to CCL by: "Sten Nilsson Lill" [stenil|*|chem.gu.se]
Dear Thomas,

Chemcraft has this feature and it works perfectly OK to use it in e.g.
PowerPoint presentations. It reads Gaussian frequency calculations, but
not Turbomole calculations as far as I know.

Please look at http://www.chemcraftprog.com/ for the details.

Hope it helps,

Sten


>
> Sent to CCL by: "Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Mitterfellner"
> [thomas.mitterfellner^^^tugraz.at]
> Hello!
>
> I've been searching through the web and through the archives but I
> couldn't find a decent solution for making a movie of a molecular
> vibration one gets from a frequency calculation with Gaussian or
> Turbomole. While Gaussview, Molden, Molekel and Jmol (no imaginary
> modes, as it seems!), are able to display the vibrations, there is no
> easy option to create, say an animated GIF (with transparency!), or an
> MPEG.
> How do you go about animating molecular vibrations for insertion into a
> presentation? I'd appreciate any help (preferably, but not limited to
> linux/OSS solutions)!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Thomas>
>
>


Ph. D. Sten Nilsson Lill
Dep. of Chemistry
University of Gothenburg
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