Hemoglobin
by johnliebler
on Sketchfab

I’ve just discovered Sketchfab, a really cool website that allows you to post and view 3D models online, and I had to try it out. Here is the hemoglobin from last week’s render (pdb 1GZX), but with the protein backbone and oxygen-binding hemes (the bright yellow bits that look like dreamcatchers) exposed. The cool part is that you can interact with the object in real time. Rotate with the left mouse button, zoom with the scroll wheel, pan with the right mouse button. reset the view with the spacebar. Try it!

Sketchfab isn’t the only site like this, I also tried Verold and p3d, but I had issues with both of those, and Sketchfab was really easy to set up and use. Sketchfab supported the widest variety of 3d objects. The Lightwave3D files I work with are supported natively, while the others were more restrictive, and in the case of Verold, wouldn’t upload my objects in any format. I wish there were a few other features available, such as incidence-based shading and animation, but for now Sketchfab is still a really cool way to share and explore 3D objects.

Antibody
by johnliebler
on Sketchfab