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Very cool work, this reminds me of the nano engineer's workstations in Stephenson's Diamond Age.

I really think these sort of tools will get exponentially more powerful with some sort of force feedback. Imagine if you were able to feel the repulsive and attractive forces of the atoms while designing. Allowing the human mind to interact so directly with this world will enable molecule designers an intuition that I think is just not possible today.

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Great point, we're implementing haptic feedback in newer builds. I never really thought of how meaningful it could be for describing forcefields. interesting...

I tried doing this with a novint falcon and reaxFF. I was able to push and pull on simulated molecules, but doing so gave me vertigo. Another problem was in this particular case the interesting phenomenon the molecule exhibited only occurred over orders of magnitude more than simulation time steps. Feeling the phenomenon would have necessarily mean feeling a lot of vibration due to thermal motion

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