Dear Colleagues,
My UW colleague Samantha Robinson discovered a cool feature that's
available in Powerpoint 365 and 2019: rotatable 3D structures of
molecules can be inserted into the slides and animated. Per Samantha:
In the "Insert" menu, there are "3D Models". Choosing "Stock 3D Models"
> gives you a menu where you can select "Chemistry". It's got a bunch of the
> VSEPR shapes that can be inserted to the slide, rotated, or even set-up as
> an animation that can rotate during the presentation mode. (There are also
> some orbitals and crystal structure packing models).
She also found a website containing tutorials for inserting your own
structures into your slides, using x-ray crystallographic data in .cif
files, .pdb files from the RSCB PDB database, and structures drawn in
ChemDraw:
https://sites.google.com/site/boisvertlab/computer-stuff/powerpoint-3d-m...
MY LIFE IS FOREVER CHANGED.
cfc
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*Colleen F. Craig, PhD*
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*Senior Lecturer*, Department of Chemistry
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