To sump up, from the discovery of vant'Hoff and Le Bel that molecules are tri-dimensional chemist have represented the molecule as near as possible to the image they have of the molecules in the space. Not only molecular modelling by computer becomes ...
To sump up, from the discovery of vant'Hoff and Le Bel that molecules are tri-dimensional chemist have represented the molecule as near as possible to the image they have of the molecules in the space. Not only molecular modelling by computer becomes more and more important to represent a molecule in 3D, but it is useful to understand and design new systems with functions. One of these representations is the design of a molecule hanging in the sky.
Looking at art one can find similarities in the concept of the painting and one can assume that chemists use this model of drawing to enhance the vision of their molecule with a tendency to show them in a sacred way. This is coming from the collective memory we have of art and the possibility of computer technique to achieve similar representation.