Minimizer Fault?
09-Jul-92 23:42:22
Sb: #18881-Minimizer Fault?
Fm: Richard Hong 76011,2744
To: Stan Okrasinski 72760,650
>> Too many people still believe "if it's the result of a calculation then
it must be right"
Stan,
You are absolutely right. I've been doing some playing with HyperChem vs.
Alchemy III, and numbers on some calculations just don't match up. It
seems that Alchemy is using a lot of shortcuts in order to produce poorer
results faster.
I think that Alchemy has some cute renderings however, especially simple
ones (ball and stick, cylinders) while HyperChem seems to have concentrated
on the higher-end renderings. I kind of like the Alchemy "joystick" grid
for moving the molecule, though I have trouble controlling the movement
sensitively.
I agree 1000% about the training issue. Inadvertently, HyperChem is going
to allow a lot of bad modeling to be done! A little knowledge (or in many
cases, no knowledge at all) will no doubt be dangerous.
Rich