Hadn't seen the jmol stuff before. We were putting this project together around 5 years ago. Shapeways was around, but we had resources on campus for 3d print

Hadn't seen the jmol stuff before. We were putting this project together around 5 years ago. Shapeways was around, but we had resources on campus for 3d printing which we used. Typically a chemistry student would have been using MacMolPlt [1] to visualize the process. If I remember right, it let you see how the atoms move during a reaction (I'm rusty on it though). It also had the ability to show orbital clouds. We were able to import the set of vertices making up the orbital clouds and generate them as a surface in Blender. Screenshots in [2]. Unfortunately I'm having trouble finding my pictures of the final printed models. These are from an earlier version before we had the shapes by periodic table column. [1] http://brettbode.github.io/wxmacmolplt/ http://brettbode.github.io/wxmacmolplt/ [2] http://imgur.com/a/duGDd http://imgur.com/a/duGDd