Tuesday 3 September 2013

ASCII depiction for Accelrys Draw

At work I've been creating some plugins for Accelrys Draw, and the thought occured to me, why not enhance the colourful razor-sharp depictions generated by the good folks at Accelrys with ASCII art versions beamed direct from the 80s?

So I wrote a plugin that uses Open Babel (through its .NET dll) to generate an ASCII depiction of the displayed structure and paste it as a text object. The image below gives some idea of it in action, and since you ask, I found that an aspect ratio of 1.7 worked well for Courier New.
Unfortunately, I'm not 100% sure that I can make either the plugin or sourcecode available, and so I'm going to err on the side of caution and leave it at the screenshots.

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