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- CHEMNIMATE 0.8 alpha-release READ ME
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- Klaas van Gend Raymond Knaapen
- Hoekerstraat 9b Veldstraat 26
- 5987 AN EGCHEL 5988 AK HELDEN
- THE NETHERLANDS THE NETHERLANDS
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- REVISION HISTORY
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- None.
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- ChemniMaTe is a program to animate Chemical reactions with the purpose to
- record it on a videorecorder. For example:
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- C H OH + Cl» --> C Cl H + OH»
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- 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.
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- ------------------------Why-was-it-written-?---------------------------------
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- 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
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- ^ ^
- 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).
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- These optical different structures are very common in biology.
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- 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.
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- ------------------How-to-operate-ChemniMaTe----------------------------------
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- ChemniMaTe is always operated from the cli. Just start it by typing:
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- CMT <file>
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- will start the script <file>. 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.
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- ---------COPYRIGHT-DISCLAIMER------------------------------------------------
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- 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.;->)
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- -----------FUTURE-IMPROVEMENTS-&-BUG-REPORT----------------------------------
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- -----------------------THANKS-TO-:-------------------------------------------
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- ...At my previous school (Bouwens van der Boije-College, Panningen):
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- Mr. Nico Vincken, teacher Chemistry.
- Mr. Ben Heil, assistant Chemistry.
- Mr. Cor Driessen, assistant Physics and Sysop of the schoolcomputer.
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- 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.
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- ******************
- * 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...
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- My Father For saying "You'll never manage it to get it ready"
- until it worked...
-
- Rowwen HΦze & Favourite local bands. (Rowwen HΦze sounds a bit like
- Janse Bagge Bend The Pogues, Janse Bagge Bend isn't explainable)
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- Vangelis & JM Jarre Favourite componists.
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- YOU! I hope to fill my wall with cards.
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