by Manuel Kroeter, June 2013

Molecule Viewer is a program to visualize molecules in a 3d rendering. The user can load any molecule file from the Protein Data Bank (http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/home/home.do) with the PDB format.

Many traditional methods to render 3d molecules have the problem that the spatial structure of the molecule can hardly be seen, especially true for large molecules. So the focus of the Molecule Viewer is the better perception of this spatial structure.

The program was implemented during the course "Visualization 2" at the Technical University of Vienna in Spring 2013. It is based on the paper "Ambient Occlusion and Edge Cueing to Enhance Real Time Molecular Visualization", written in 2006 by Tarini et al.

Go to the program main page.