[HN Gopher] AsciiMol: Curses based ASCII molecule viewer for Lin...
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       AsciiMol: Curses based ASCII molecule viewer for Linux terminals
        
       Author : pizza
       Score  : 111 points
       Date   : 2022-03-08 07:56 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | samatman wrote:
       | Is referring to curses as for "Linux terminals" trolling, or am I
       | just getting old?
        
         | bee_rider wrote:
         | As the other poster pointed out, it is probably using ncurses.
         | Ncurses stands for new-curses, and it is from 1993, and it is
         | the new-and-improved version of a library from the early 80's
         | at least.
         | 
         | If this seems new to you, the good news is, you aren't
         | _getting_ old. Bad news is, you 've been there for a while.
         | Beats the alternative though, right?
        
         | infinisil wrote:
         | It's referring to the ncurses library:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses
        
         | chociej wrote:
         | Probably just ignorance. ncurses should work for all POSIXes I
         | think.
        
       | user-the-name wrote:
       | Unreal that it is 2022 and this is the state of terminals.
       | 
       | There is _no_ reason that terminals should not be able to show
       | actual graphics other than a complete and utter failure of
       | innovation in command-line interfaces.
        
         | Shared404 wrote:
         | I mean, there is Sixel.
         | 
         | But why do we care about graphics in a terminal? If I want to
         | display graphics, I'll use a GUI, if I don't care, I'll use a
         | terminal.
         | 
         | If I want to use graphics remotely, there's X, or any number of
         | remote desktop solutions, or scripting remote data and local
         | programs, or web browsers.
        
       | fareesh wrote:
       | Can it show transparent aluminium?
        
       | franga2000 wrote:
       | Reading the title I definitely didn't expect it to look THIS
       | good! Well done!
        
       | periheli0n wrote:
       | Looks great and is certainly useful for a quick check. For finer
       | discrimination a real graphical display will still be required
       | though, e.g. for checking bonds, and geometries.
        
         | kergonath wrote:
         | Sounds very useful to check whatever the HPC is doing from a
         | SSH session without having to move files around.
        
           | gilleain wrote:
           | Heh I wonder whether the venerable Rasmol could be used for
           | this. It was originally developed in a much more client-
           | server world.
        
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