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Libraries that are a foundation of the Avogadro 2 project.
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Avogadro 2 is a chemical editor and visualization application, it is also a set
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of reusable software libraries written in C++ using principles of modularity for
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maximum reuse. The development of the first generation Avogadro application and
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library is documented in our paper, and this remains the preferred method of
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citation at present. The motivation for rewriting Avogadro, along with
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improvements and changes made in Avogadro 2 are summarized in our Source
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article. We provide a set of permissively licensed, open source, cross platform
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software components in the Avogadro 2 libraries, along with an end-user
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application with full source code, and binaries.
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The library features updated and improved rendering, where we built upon the
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abstraction provided by previous API, but implemented a simple scene graph. This
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makes use of features such as impostor sphere rendering, resulting in
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significant rendering speed improvements while improving the quality of the
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visualization. The core is built for scalability, looking to enable the analysis
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of larger chemical structures and simulations being produced by computational
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chemistry codes today. Emphasis has also been placed on making it even easier to
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extend, using simple Python scripts to add simulation input capabilities, and
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data input/output along with access to full-blown C++ plugin APIs where more
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control is required.
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WWW: https://www.openchemistry.org/projects/avogadro2/
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