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Generally speaking, things at the nanoscale are not easily seen. With few options, nanoscientists often bump along the surface with tiny probes and construct relief maps like blind men trying to figure out what an elephant looks like. The resulting visual usually invokes marbles under a thin cotton cloth. However, in the virtual world of visualization we are freed from the constraints of what things really look like (however that is defined at the nanoscale where light wavelengths are too large to give us the resolutions to which we are accustomed) and we can make things look the way we want or need, based on any property we wish. nanoXplorer IDE answers the challenge with a flexible array of visualization options for displaying atomic systems and nanoscale components in interactive 3D for the purposes of design and analysis. With predefined views, intuitive navigation, smooth animation and support for high resolution image and video output, nanoXplorer IDE makes you feel like a tiny nanoscale observer in the thick of the action and gives you the tools you need for communicating with your colleagues.
 Create Videos
If a picture is worth a thousand words then a video can't be beat. And when you need to generate a high resolution video that shows the nanoscale to the world, nanoXplorer IDE can't be beat. Script the camera to go anywhere and look exactly where you want it to. Render frames at an arbitrary resolution in an offscreen background process so you can continue working. Pan, zoom, cut... direct your masterpiece!
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 Atomic System Display Options
nanoXplorer IDE offers a high degree of control over how your nanoscale components and their atomic systems are displayed. You'll find the familiar ball & stick, space filling and other common visualization schemes as well as easy ways to switch between them. But you'll also be able to go deeper and set options for individual bond and nucleus types, including materials, translucency and other attributes. This flexibility is key for highlighting important information and making your work a cut above the rest.
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 Scale from Angstroms to Meters
At the nanoscale, atomic systems are the focus. But it's often how nanoscale components fit into larger devices or systems that is of interest. For the student trying to understand how small nanoscale really is, zooming from a hair, to a cell within that hair's root to a DNA strand in that cell and finally to a base pair within that DNA strand can be an eye-opening and highly educational experience. For the nanoengineer, designing the nanoscale components in a microscopic system can require lots of "in and out." nanoXplorer IDE enables sliding between these scales almost effortlessly.
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 Background Colors, Gradients and Images
When producing images for presentations, printing or even just trying to be productive in your every day work environment, different backgrounds can yield better--sometime much better--results. With nanoXplorer IDE you can select any color, a color gradient or an image to be your background.
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 Save Images, Export Scenes
When you've got that perfect view of your nanodevice design and want to capture it for your research paper or morning presentation to the team, simply export it from nanoXplorer IDE in the desired resolution in any number of supported formats. Or if it's the scene itself that you want to share, export the scene graph.
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 Labels
Add labels to your nanocomponents including complete control over size, appearance and behavior such as billboarding and autosizing. Billboarding keeps the text facing you at all times, whle autosizing can resize the label to appear the same no matter how close or far your viewpoint. Choose between true 3D text or 3d textured signs.
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 Level of Detailing
Wouldn't it be nice if you could control how your nanocomponents and their atomic systems looked depending on how much screen real estate they occupy or how far away the viewpoint? Maybe have labels pop up as you swoop in. With nanoXplorer IDE you can define any number of levels of detail for each nanocomponent, giving you complete flexibility to display exactly what you want, when you want.
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 Advanced View Control
You can fly around the virtual universe by mouse. You can zoom in or out on specific components. You can designate a home view and return to it any time with a single click, or any of the six standard views (front, back, left, right, top and bottom). Moreover transition from one view to another with smooth animation, so you never lose your bearings.
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