From chemistry-request@server.ccl.net Sat Dec 9 18:19:10 2000 Received: from blakey.sci.ccny.cuny.edu (blakey.sci.ccny.cuny.edu [134.74.52.245]) by server.ccl.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA22545 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 18:19:10 -0500 Received: from localhost (amasunov@localhost) by blakey.sci.ccny.cuny.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA22158; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 19:05:43 -0500 Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 19:05:43 -0500 (EST) From: AM To: "Richard P. Muller" cc: "Comp.Chem.List" , amasunov@blakey.sci.ccny.cuny.edu Subject: Re: CCL:visualizing vibrations In-Reply-To: <000401c06223$a9a3de00$9865fea9@monk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Richard, Molden reads Gaussian files an animates vibrations without any 3rd party tools, see http://www.cmbi.nl/~schaft/molden/molden.html The Windows version of the program needs X-server to be installed first, but it is a minor inconvenience Artem > From: "Richard P. Muller" > Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:22:01 -0800 > Subject: Re: CCL:visualizing vibrations > > > Has anyone mentioned Moldens yet? It does a nice job of visualizing > normal modes. I've written a little python script to convert Jaguar > normal modes to the Molden format, which is available at: > http://www.wag.caltech.edu/home/rpm/notes/molden/. > Maybe someone can modify it to convert Gaussian modes. I'd be glad to > help, but it's been years since I've used Gaussian. > elewars wrote: > > > > P. Vitorge asked for a free or cheap program to visualize Gaussian > > vibrations. > > > > A free program for PCs is MolWin. Look in the CCL archives, as I gave > > info' on this program a couple years ago. > > > > Another program (besides GaussView and HyperChem) is MolVib, made by > > Serena Software, the company best known, perhaps, for PC Model; but I > > don't know how much this costs. > > > > E. Lewars > > =====