Molecular Graphics and Me

Some small bits of molecular graphics history

The MADGRAPH system

Madison, late 1970s

Early days of Raster3D

Seattle, 1988/1989

Broader History of Molecular Visualization

some neat bits of history collected by Eric Martz

Data visualization

My Contributions to Gnuplot

Gnuplot was an early example of what we now call an open source community project (the term hadn't been invented yet). The first general distribution in 1986 by the original authors, Thomas Williams and Colin Kelley, was posted via usenet as a series of shar archive files. Starting some time in the 1990s I began using gnuplot to prepare figures for publication. Then I began modifying it to meet local needs. By 2004 I had become a regular contributer to the gnuplot project. Things only escalated from there.

Computer graphics

Quadric surfaces

3D rendering of thermal ellipsoids - the math underlying rastep

Texture Mapping as a Fundamental Drawing Primitive.

Paul Haeberli and Mark Segal (1993).

Computer colors for color blind users

Nature Methods comment by Bang Wong

Cube Helix color palettes

D A Green (2011) http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5083

Bibliography

Bibtex format list of references