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With the advent of ever more powerful computer graphics hardware and visualization packages, new graphical methods of scientific visualization and data exploration are beginning to be explored. This includes fully immersive environments where the chemist is surrounded by data objects in 3D space. New models of animation and interactive manipulation of graphical entities are developed to help the chemist in gaining insight from or navigating in large amounts of data. This review discusses some representative approaches and systems which demonstrate where chemistry-related visualization and data management is headed.
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Received: 26 August 1997 / Accepted: 28 August 1997 / Published: 2 September 1997
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Ihlenfeldt, WD. Virtual Reality in Chemistry. J Mol Med 3, 386–402 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s008940050056
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s008940050056