A JavaScript framework for computational simulations
summary
Google Foundation–funded port of Molecular Workbench into a browser framework claims real-time scientific simulation using JavaScript and HTML5; it ships a working md2d engine (2D molecular dynamics, protein-folding toy, DNA transcription demo), an early Quantum plugin, and a 100×100 fluid model. Embeddable iframes support MKS units and synthesized UI properties with an invalidation and forkable history system. Sensors hook via GamePad API for Arduino/Vernier, heavy compute moves to WebGL 4–20× speedup, and all code is open source (attribution only).
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:44Models
- 2:56Twodimensional molecules
- 3:52Temperature
- 5:10Protein folding
- 7:46DNA transcription translation
- 8:21Quantum collision
- 14:06GitHub
- 14:42Model
- 17:51Pendulum
- 18:59MVC
- 20:45Invalidation
- 22:24Time
- 24:12Fluid Dynamics
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