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Welcome to ePMV

We have developed an open-source plug-in, embedded Python Molecular Viewer (ePMV), that runs molecular modeling software directly inside of professional 3D animation applications (hosts) to provide simultaneous access the capabilities of all of the systems. Uniting host and scientific algorithms into a single interface allows users from varied backgrounds to assemble professional quality visuals and to perform computational experiments with relative ease. The combination provides:
• High quality rendering with shadows, global illumination, ambient occlusion, etc.
• Intuitive GUI workflows that help users set up animations ranging from easy turntable rotations to sophisticated mechanism of action movies
• Subcelluar modeling that allows users to illustrate or animate complex cell events in molecular detail by positioning objects with intuitive controls
• A common Python Platform that allows users to initiate sophisticated algorithms like molecular dynamics or docking energy calculations on the fly and to interoperate multiple algorithms at the same time on the same model 

By enabling easy exchange of algorithms, ePMV can facilitate interdisciplinary research, smooth communication between broadly diverse specialties and provide a common platform to frame and visualize the increasingly detailed intersection(s) of cellular and molecular biology.

ePMV is free and the ePMV plugin currently supports:
• Cinema4D 11.5 12 & 13™  (11.5 died with Py4D expiration)
• Blender 2.49, 2.58 & 2.60
• Maya 2011 & 2012™

With the help of developers like you, this list can easily extend to include 3D Studio Max (via Py3dsMax@Blur-dev), Houdini, RealFlow, SoftImage XSI (PySoftimage), Modo, and many others...

Please acknowledge the use of the ePMV software that results in any published work, including scientific papers, textbooks, covers, animations, slides, etc. with this citation.

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  • Softimage 2013 We are currently working on porting ePMV (and upy) to Autodesk Softimage 2013. We currently have mesh creation and color per vertex running.
    Posted May 3, 2012 10:12 AM by ludovic autin
  • uPy wins NVIDIA best poster award at VIZBI 2012 Our poster won first place at VIZBI 2012. Blogged from Seán O'Donoghue... uPy: a ubiquitous Python API with biological modeling applications enables ePMV & autoFill by Ludovic Autin, Graham Johnson, Johan Hake, Arthur Olson, Michel Sanner, can be viewed on the VIZBI site. uPy provides a Python interface that lets users drive several computer graphics programs (Blender, Maya, Cinema4D, DejaVu) as well as two Graphical User Interface toolkits (Tkinter and Qt)... ePMV is an example of a relatively mature uPy plugin. For this honor, we received an NVIDIA Quadro 6000 professional video card, one of the world’s fastest GPUs that was donated to the contest by NVIDIA. We will use the card to further development of uPy and other ...
    Posted Mar 14, 2012 5:04 PM by Graham Johnson
  • ePMV in Blender2.62 for Windows 32bits and 64bits We finally got ePMV working for blender2.62 on Windows. We have tested it on Windows 7 64bits but should work on most major Windows distribution.You can find in the standalone installation page. And again if you have any issue you can contact us via the forum or via email.
    Posted Mar 5, 2012 11:36 AM by ludovic autin
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