============================================================================= CHEMNIMATE 0.8 alpha-release READ ME ============================================================================= Klaas van Gend Raymond Knaapen Hoekerstraat 9b Veldstraat 26 5987 AN EGCHEL 5988 AK HELDEN THE NETHERLANDS THE NETHERLANDS REVISION HISTORY ---------------- None. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=What-is=ChemniMaTe-?-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ChemniMaTe is a program to animate Chemical reactions with the purpose to record it on a videorecorder. For example: C H OH + Cl¯ --> C Cl H + OH¯ ³ ³ isn't done by just let an OH¯ swim away and adding a Cl¯ ion, but is (far) more complicated. See example 'Methanol.ani' for a full animation of this reaction. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------Why-was-it-written-?--------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was written because the chapters of my chemistry book dealing with reaction- mechanisms didn't explain this enough to make it understandable for the less capable students of my class, and there aren't any explaining Videotapes on this topic. So I decided to write this programme to fill the existing gap. My chemistry teacher liked it (At first he didn't believe I wrote it all by myself) and uses some animations in his classes now. This programme is also used to explain what the difference is between: H H H H C---C C---C /H /Cl /H /Cl / / / H/ C===C C===C H H H ^ ^ THESE HYDROGEN-ATOMS These two chemical structures have a different refraction of light, and different melting points. Oh, by the way, there is another (third) one: just number two, but then the other way around (??? -> left H up, right H below). These optical different structures are very common in biology. By trying to unite the two different structures, you'll see that thei're not perfectly the same form. That's what ChemniMaTe can visualize. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------How-to-operate-ChemniMaTe---------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChemniMaTe is always operated from the cli. Just start it by typing: CMT will start the script . NB don't enter the <>. For workbench-users: sorry, no WB support. I've added some Icons using Xicon to show some examples. I consider WB support just nonsense. ChemniMaTe uses its own programming language. It was written while looking a bit to various other languages, especially C and PASCAL. See 'Language.doc' for an extensive explanation of all commands. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------COPYRIGHT-DISCLAIMER------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChemniMaTe is in the public domain, as long as the copy-fee isn't more than $4. I'd like you to copy the entire, unmodified, directory, including ALL docs, examples and sources. If you change anything in the examples or the source, let me know. If you use it in another PD serie than Fish, please let me know. * * * * * * * * * * If you like (or not) the programme, whenever you use it or not, PLEASE SEND ME A NICE POSTCARD, I'd like to see one of the walls in my Room fully invisible because of the cards you guys send me. * * * * * * * * * * When you use ChemniMaTe, I'd like you to send me a disk containing some of the animations you wrote, but if you don't, I don't care as long as you send me the postcard (receiving a disk together with a postcard is strange as you first send a card and then start programming.;->) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------FUTURE-IMPROVEMENTS-&-BUG-REPORT---------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS: · The inclusion of DisplayMode 2 (2-d carthesian coords) and 3 (3-d polar coordinates), some more commands. · Full rewriting of the display-routines (of course remaining compatible to older versions), as I dislike their badly written code. I can't imagine I ever wrote code that bad. · You can tell me whatever you want to be included. BUG REPORT: · I'm afraid, no NTSC support yet. I don't know exactly what I have to change to make CMT NTSC-compatible. I guess it works at the moment, but some bar at the bottom of the screen is invisible. This means you'll miss all Footer-texts. IF SOMEBODY CAN TELL ME WHAT EXACTLY MUST BE CHANGED TO MAKE CMT FULLY NTSC, PLEASE WRITE TO ME. · ANIM command, doesn't work correctly -> I planned it to set CMT automatically into DisplayMode 3, to be RAYMOND/MSDOS compatible. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------THANKS-TO-:------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...At my previous school (Bouwens van der Boije-College, Panningen): Mr. Nico Vincken, teacher Chemistry. Mr. Ben Heil, assistant Chemistry. Mr. Cor Driessen, assistant Physics and Sysop of the schoolcomputer. Raymond Knaapen for a enormous lot of comments, helpful suggestions --------------- and rewriting the programme from scratch in PASCAL on a 80286 (MS-NOPS) computer. The problems he encountered and the solutions HE thought out for it were of great help to me. Harm van der Heijden for a few additional remarks. ****************** * Willy Zelen & * * Karin Vestjens * Oh, sorry, it should have been on top of this file, ****************** as this programme is dedicated to both. ...At my current school (Eindhoven University of Technology): Raymond Knaapen Oh, no, not him again!!! ...Anywhere else: Rutger de Vos & for sending me three virusses, of which each one set Rob de Vos me a week's work back... My Father For saying "You'll never manage it to get it ready" until it worked... Rowwen Hèze & Favourite local bands. (Rowwen Hèze sounds a bit like Janse Bagge Bend The Pogues, Janse Bagge Bend isn't explainable) Vangelis & JM Jarre Favourite componists. YOU! I hope to fill my wall with cards. /* end - of - file */