NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/sci/chem/4659

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From: [e-mail] (Marc Roussel)
Subject: Re: AVS and chemistry
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Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:45:21 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Renzo Balducci)
writes:
>I have very recently "discovered" the existence of the AVS package from
>Advanced Visual Systems. It was brought to my attention that this package
>is being extensively used (among many other things) for molecular modeling
>and theoretical chemistry applications.

     I use none of these packages ("When I was young, we didn't have any
of those fancy visualization packages and we liked it that way!") and I
have no association with the makers of any of them.  However, since I
happen to know about them, I would like to point out that there are a
few other similar-featured packages available.
     If you have Silicon Graphics workstations, you should mention AVS
to your SGI sales representative.  SGI has something similar (whose name
I forget), and I think you can get their product cheap.  In particular,
if you're buying a new workstation, you might be able to get them to throw
it in for free.  (A year or two ago, an SGI sales rep. hinted that this
might be possible when I asked.  Note that I am at an educational site
and that those of you at corporate settings might find that no one is
willing to give you anything.  Obviously also, even if they give it to
you, software maintenance will not likely be free.)
     You might also want to talk to IMSL.  They have something which I
believe is called IMSL/IDL.  I think that it does a lot of the same
things as AVS, but I'm not sure.

                Marc R. Roussel
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