Split display to show protein from more than one direction

Started by jeff101

jeff101 Lv 1

Sort of related to the above view options would be
to have Fixed, Rotating, and Rocking view options.

Fixed - Like the present protein view.

Rotating - If you drag on the protein a certain
way, the protein will start rotating in that
direction and continue doing so until you make
it rotate a different direction or switch back
to the Fixed view option. The amount you drag
on the protein decides how fast it rotates.

Rocking - This is a bit like Rotating in that
the direction and amount you drag the protein
sets which direction and how fast it starts moving.
After that, the motion is like a rotation that slows
down, then reverses direction, then speeds up, then
slows down again, then reverses direction again, etc.
Mathematically, it would have an axis of rotation
and there would be an angle phi about this axis of
rotation. phi would start at 0 degrees and obey a
sine function so that phi=Asin(omegat). A tells
the amplitude of the rocking (phi would range from
-A to +A), and omega tells how fast the rocking
occurs (larger omega rocks faster). In any event,
the rocking would continue until you switched
back to a Fixed view or dragged on the protein
again to set a new rocking speed and direction.

It would be nice if the above views would continue
and could be changed, even while Recipes run. I
think the Rotating and Rocking views would help us
see the 3D nature of our proteins better.

jeff101 Lv 1

With moving view options like Rotating or Rocking,
as above, players might want to send short gif
movies to each other instead of screenshots.
Perhaps let the camera icons inside Foldit chat
convert to video icons. Maybe click the video icon
once to start recording and then again to quit.

Each gif filename could include the # of frames
in its movie. This would help other players know
how long a movie is before clicking on it.