Introduction, Registration and Licence
What is 3D Chemical Elements?
With 3D Chemical Elements Screensaver you can see how actual atoms look like
in 3D just at your desktop. It's really amazing!
3D Chemical Elements is not just a screensaver. It's advanced interactive Mendeleev
Table where everething you see is a real 3D model of the smallest known bricks
of our real World.
You can configure everething in the screensaver just from your keyboard and
mouse. You can play with atoms as you like. You can turn your desktop into the
smartest Atom Modeller in the world.
There are a lot of built-in presets. You can also add your own ones to get
just what you want.
You can learn the fundamentals of Chemistry and Physics. There are Detailed
info on each Chemical Element currently known by scientists.
See Atoms, electrons, protons, neutrons and even quarks at your desktop!
3D chemical Elements screensaver has a great educational content and also it's
an ideal original toy for all of us!
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Ambient Light Legend
Far away in the Universe near Andromeda Galaxy Ambient Light born. Few Cosmic
objects came across Ambient Light and began fluctuating in his loving rays.
The huge harmonic energy released during this process were spreading in all
directions and reached the Earth at July 16/2002. Ambient Light wanted to share
his love with human beings and finally found the way he can do it. Many of us
like screensavers and he decided to shine out his love through the one of it.
At September 16/2002 the first version of Ambient Light screensaver was finally
written in C++. Few years later at April 23/2005 Ambient Light screensaver was
transformed into 3D Chemical Elements screensaver.
The miracles happen from time to time to let us remember who we are, where
did we come from and where are we going to.
The meaning of Ambient Light coming to the Earth are far from understanding
yet. But we can already know for sure it wants to help us in realizing our Earth
mission and awakening our creativity.
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System Requirements
- Windows 9x/NT/Me/2000/XP/2003
- CPU 1400 Mhz or higher
- OpenGL compatible 3D accelerator (Geforce 5200/Radeon 9600 or newer)
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Copyright
3D Chemical version 1.2 for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT
4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
The original 3D screensaver!
Shareware version: Free Distribution
Copyright (c) 2005 7art Studio
All Rights Reserved
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Distribution
You are authorized to make copies of the UNREGISTERED SHAREWARE VERSIONS of
our software, and to distribute them to anyone, however, they must be distributed
in the original, complete and unchanged form.
You are authorized to save UNREGISTERED SHAREWARE VERSIONS of our software
to your software libraries for others to download.
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How to register and obtain the latest version?
Reasons to register:
3D Chemical Elements is a "Shareware" program. Everyone is entitled
to evaluate the software for 7days without charge. After 7days, if you decline
to register, you must uninstall the software. You may register your copy with
us for a nominal fee.
Here's what you get with your 3D Elements registration:
1. A Registration Code (by Email) to unlock your evaluation copy into full
unexpired version.
2. All future upgrades and updates, free of charge.
3. Life-of-product technical support.
4. No time limit on usage.
5. No annoying registration notices.
Finally, every registration enables us to improve our software and continue
developing high quality products in the future.
Registration Options and Prices:
Personal
One user or one computer only.
Registration Fee: $19.95
SECURE ONLINE ORDER is a very convenient and fast way to register 3D Chemical
Elements.
Our shareware registration and order-taking service provider is RegNow.
It's the most respected, reliable and efficient shareware registration and order-taking
service provider in the world. It use Secure payment systems and accept most
common credit cards and also support Fax Orders or Postal Mail Orders.
Here is the Registration Process, step-by-step:
Step 1: Select 'Register Online' link from '3D Chemical Elements Screensaver'
folder in Windows Start menu, or press 'Register' button in 3D Chemical Elements
Configuration Dialog and then press 'Order Online' button.
Step 2: Submit an online payment within the RegNow.
Step 3: RegNow will immediately send us a confirmation e-mail notification
including your delivery information (name and email address).
Step 4: We will create your registration code using your delivery information.
Within 24 hours, we will use e-mail to deliver the registration code to you
both with simple unlock instructions. In most cases you will receive your registration
key withing next few hours after your payment.
If you have any questions that are not answered here, please feel free to
contact us at feedback@7art-screensavers.com.
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How to use 3D Chemical Elements
3D Chemical Elements Settings Dialog
You can activate the 3D Chemical Elements settings dialog:
- from Windows Start Menu '3D Chemical Elements Screensaver/Run 3D Chemical Elements Screensaver'
tab or
- by pressing right mouse button while taking cursor above your desktop, choosing
screensaver tab and pressing "settings" button when 3D Chemical Elements
is set in Screen Saver drop down menu.
- by pressing 'F4' button while the screensaver is running in full screen mode.
After 3D Chemical Elements Configuration dialog is activated you can start configuring
it.
3D Chemical Elements Settings is devided into 5 shortcuts to simplify the configuration.
If you don't want to change any settings the screensaver will still work ok.
But you can configure it in order to get the maximum out for your own needs.
You will always see 5 buttons in the bottom of the screensaver configuration
dialog. It does not important which shortcut is currently active.
There are Register (or
About in the registered version), Help,
Save, Cancel and Preview
buttons.
To register your copy of the screensaver or to find out how to register - press
Register button. After the screensaver is already registered
you will see About button instead of Register. Press
it and you will see that the screensaver is properly registered to your name.
To get this help - press Help button.
To save your current settings- press Save button.
To exit the screensaver configuration dialog - press Cancel button.
To preview your current settings in full screen (to run the screensaver) -
press Preview button.
Global Options shorcut
is shown below:
In Global Options you can find the most useful settings for the most
frequent use.
Here you can check or uncheck any desired options in order to get the exactly
what you want.
If Show Clock chekbox is checked - the little digital
Clock will be displayed in the right bottom corner of the running screensaver.
If Show FPS chekbox is checked - you will see the
current refresh rate in the right upper corner of the screensaver.
If current FPS is below 23 - you can uncheck some checkboxes from Advanced
Options shortcut of the Screensaver Configuration dialog.
If Keyboard Control checkbox is checked - you can
configure almost everything just from your keyboard in the running screensaver.
Actually almost all options that you can find in the configuration dialog is
available also from the keyboard.
You can find additional help on each key by pressing 'F1' from the running screensaver.
You can also find this info in 3D Chemical Elements
Keyboard Control section of this help. Also you will see tooltips on each
key after pressing it. It's very convenient as the most keys adjust different
behavior of the screensaver and often you should press them few times in order
to get the exactly what you want.
If Keyboard Control checkbox is checked -
you can exit from the running screensaver by pressing 'Esc' button.
If Keyboard Control checkbox is unchecked
- you can exit the screensaver by pressing any key.
If Exit on Mouse Mouse Move checkbox is uncheked
you can also control the screensaver by Mouse. You can find more info about
it in 3D Chemical Elements Mouse Control section of
this help.
If Exit on Mouse Mouse Move checkbox is uncheked - you can always exit
from the running screensaver by pressing 'Esc' button on the keyboard.
If Exit on Mouse Mouse Move checkbox is cheked - you can easily exit
from the screensaver by moving your mouse or clicking on its buttons.
Play Music and Play Sounds checkboxes
define whether to play music and special sound effects correspondingly or not.
You can also control the vollume level for music and sounds independantly. You
can make it either by adjusting the rulers in Global Options dialog
or by pressing 'F5'/'F6' and 'F7'/'F8' keys on the keyboard if Keyboard
Control checkbox is checked.
Autostart Taskbar Launcher checkbox will define whether
to load a Taskbar Laucher with Windows. It's highly
recommended as it's really small but very useful tool to enchance your screensaver
experience greatly.
Gamma Correction ruler is intended for adjusting the brightness
of your desktop. If the running screensaver seems to dark or bright you can
play with Gamma Correction to get the desired brightness state of your desktop.
You can also adjust Gamma from your keyboard by pressing 'F11'/'F12' keys.
You can change your current desktop resolution in which the screensaver will
run. As default the screensaver will run in your current desktop mode if Use
Desktop Display Settings checkbox is checked. If you want to get
more perfomance you can uncheck the checkbox and decrease the current resolution.
You can also decrease the resolution if you want to run the screensaver in VGA
Mode at your analog TV or Projector.
Unchecking VSync checkbox will result in increasing
the overall screensaver prefomance but if it's unchecked you can see some video
card artefacts at your screen.
In Global Options shortcut you can also Load
Presets or even add your own ones. Actually it's the
most interesting menu in the whole screensaver configuration dialog.
With Presets you can save and load your current screensaver configuration.
All screensaver options (checkboxes, menus, rulers and even key states) are
kept inside the Presets. The only options that you can configure independantly
from Presets are the Global Options. All the rest ones can be easily
saved to and loaded from the Presets.
You can configure everething as you want and save your new unique configuration
to a new Preset. All you need to do that is to press Add button
below Load Presets menu and enter the name for it. After that you will
see your new Preset in Load Presets menu. It will keep all
your settings. Now you can load another Preset but later you can easily
load your newly created Preset. It's a real revolution in the screensaver industry!
There are few built-in presets:
Most Common (maximum perfomance/minimum visual effects)
Educational (good for educational purposes as it shows a table with
info on each Atom and also brings other useful educational content)
Scientific (could be interesting for chemists and physicists)
Artistic (maximum visual effects/minimum perfomance, recommended for
owners of modern video cards, atom galaxies are just amazing)
Electron Clouds (you will see the electron clouds in all their beauty)
Meditation (slow and calm, good for relaxation and meditation)
Craze Race (quite extreme, for whose of us loving adrenalin rush)
Individual Electrons (you can track individual electrons how they spin
around their orbitals)
Lucky FourLeaf (original atom order, specially designed to bring good
luck and get the ultimate visual pleasure)
Atom Options shorcut is
shown below:
Atom Options shortcut is intended to adjust different aspects of atom
appearance and camera bahavior.
Here you can also fine tune the Mouse Wheel Sensitivity,
Camera Speed and Electron Speed..
Mainly this shorcut consists of drop down menus from which you can choose what
option to activate.
Arrange Atoms menu consists of the following options:
Mendeleev table (Atoms arranged into traditional form of Periodical
Table of Dmitry Mendeleev)
Mendeleev table 2 (Atoms arranged into alternative form of Periodical Table)
Atom Galaxies (Atoms arranged into surreal spiral atom galaxies. If Show
Salaxy checkbox from Advanced Options
shortcut is checked - you will see something really incredible. You can also
press ' G ' key on the keyboard to check that box
just from the running screensaver.)
Spiral (Atoms arranged into double spiral reminiscent to DNA)
Chaos (Atoms arranged randomly in 3D space)
Trifoliate (Atoms arranged into Free Leaf)
Quatrefoil (Atoms arranged into Four Leaf)
Random Preset (Screensaver will choose itself what Preset to use)
You can also adjust the above settings by pressing ' T ' button
on the keyboard in running screensaver so many times as you want.
The Arrange Atoms mode will keep changing with each ' T '
key press.
Sign Atoms with menu will let you to chose whether
to display Full Name next to atoms or Brief
Name or even Both Names at the same
time.
You can also choose to display No Name. If full name
or both names option is set you will see brief name next to the atoms when they
are far away from you. When Atoms gets closer you will see full name or both
names.
You can also adjust the above settings by pressing ' A ' button
on the keyboard in running screensaver so many times as you want.
The current Sign Atoms with mode will keep changing with each ' A
' key press.
Electron Mode menu consists of the following options:
No Electrons (No electrons are shown)
Individual Electrons (You can see only one electron at all active electron
orbitals. It's very convenient mode to keep an eye on individual electrons and
clearly see how they move on their ways)
All Electrons (All electrons in each atom are shown. It does not important
which electron orbitals are currently active.)
Trailing Mode (You can see electron tails. It's very funny and beautiful
mode)
Stochastic Mode (Electrons move so fast that actually you can see them
almost everywhere at once)
Pause Mode (Electrons are shown but they don't move at all only both
with atoms. It's very meditative mode)
You can also adjust the above settings by pressing ' E'
button on the keyboard in running screensaver so many times as you want.
The current Electron Mode mode will keep changing
with each ' E ' key press.
Sign Electrons with menu
No Info
Brief Info (You will see only orbital name of each electron)
Full Info (You will see full energy level information for all electrons)
Charge Info (You will see only ' - ' next to each electron)
You can also adjust the above settings by pressing ' I '
button on the keyboard in running screensaver so many times as you want.
The current Sign Electrons with mode will keep changing with each '
I ' key press.
Quarks Mode menu
No Quarks
Simple Quarks (You will up and down quarks each of 3 colors red, rreen and blue.
Proton is made from two up quarks and one down quarks and Neutron is made from
two down quarks and one up quarks)
Morphing Quarks (You will see colourful morphing quarks)
Signed Quarks (You will see u next to Up quarks and
d next to Down quarks)
You can also adjust the above settings by pressing ' Q '
button on the keyboard in running screensaver so many times as you want.
The current Quarks Mode mode will keep changing with each ' Q '
key press.
With Move Around Atom menu you can adjust how often
the camera should start changing it's position around the current atom.
There are few available options from five seconds up to one minute. You can
also choose Continuous Motion - in that case the camera will constantly
moving around the current atom until it will fly to the next atom. You can also
choose Don't Move option - in that case the camera will not move around
the current atom at all until it will fly to the next one.
With Change Atom menu you can control how often
the camera will fly to the next atom. There are few available options from 5
seconds up to 15 minutes.
You can also choose Don't Move option if you don't want to let the
camera to fly to other atoms automatically from the current one.
Change Atom Mode menu has the following options:
Common (The camera will always fly to the atom with next atom index,
one after another. At each start of the screensaver the camera will start from
the first atom)
Random (The camera will fly to the random atom each time.)
Continuous (The camera will continue its motion from the same atom
before we exit the screensaver last time.)
With Change Atom Galaxy menu you can control how
often the camera will fly to the next atom galaxy. There are few available options
from 15 seconds up to 30 minutes. Please note that this menu is available only
when Atom Galaxies preset is active in Arrange Atoms menu.
If you choose Atom Galaxies preset but Change Atom Galaxy
is still disableb - please go to any other shortcut of the screensaver configuration
dialog and return back - the menu will be activated.
Enable Camera Hard Cuts checkbox will determine whether
to let camera make the hard cuts for the long distance flights between atoms.
Advanced Options shorcut
is shown below:
Advanced Options shorcut consists mainly from checkboxes.
Show background (if checked - you will see stars
in the background)
Live Background (if showed the background stars will
twinkle)
Show Grid (if checked - you will see beautiful coordinate
grid. it could help to feel distance between objects better)
Atmosphere Fog (if checked - you will see fog in
atmoshpere)
Motion Blur (if checked - you will see a strange
beautiful trailing effects)
Electron Glow (if checked - each shown electron will
glow)
Orbit Glow (if checked - active electron paths will
glow)
Nucleus Fog (if checked - you will see surreal fog
around the Nucleus Core. it's more useful to uncheck this option if Show
Electron Clouds options is checked)
Nucleus Glow (if checked - you will see nucleus glow.
you can adjust its brigness with the corresponding ruler.)
Show Nebula (if checked you will see beautiful colorful
nebulas. you can adjust how many nebulas to display with the corresponding ruler)
Fade (if checked - the screensaver iself and all
each object will appear and disappear gradually)
Antialiase Fonts (if checked - the fonts will be
smooth. if unchecked - the perfomance on old 3D video cards will be higher)
Show Orbit Path (if checked - you will see Electron
Paths for each active electron orbital of each active energy level. You can
activate each energy level by pressing '1'-'7' keys. You can
activate each electron orbital by presssing 's', 'p' , 'd',
'f' keys correspondingly. Each press of these keys will activate the
next orbital and so on.)
Show Electron Clouds (if checked - you will see Electron
Clouds for each active electron orbital of each active energy level. You can
activate each energy level by pressing '1'-'7' keys. You can
activate each electron orbital by presssing 's', 'p' , 'd',
'f' keys correspondingly. Each press of these keys will activate the
next orbital and so on.)
Show Info Table (if checked - you will see the information
on currently active atom. You can press 'F2' button to get more detailed info
on currently active atom)
Semitransparent Table (if checked the info tables
will be semitransparent)
Show Galaxy (if checked - you will see galaxies when
Atom Galaxies option is active in Arrange Atoms menu in
Atom Options shortcut)
Use Native Atom Color (if checked - the atom colors
will be as they desribed by chemists, otherwise they will use the palette from
Color Scheme menu)
Color Scheme menu has three options: 1 colors, 7
colors, 23 colors.
Random Orbital menu will determine which orbital
to show for each atom automatically.
If you press Auto Detect Best Preset button - the
screensaver will try to offer you the best availbale preset in accordance with
the perfomance of your 3D Video Card.
Detalisation shorcut is
shown below:
Detalisation shorcut consists from rulers.
The main Detalisation ruler will determine the number
of polygons from which electrons, protons, neutrons and quarks consist of. The
higher detalisation - the lower the perfomance on old 3D Video Cards.
All other rulers at this shortcut (Visible Distnace, Electron Visible
Distnace, Orbital Visible Distnace, Cloud Visible Distnace and
Atom Visible Distnace) will determine the distance
at which the appropriate objects become visible.
Registration shorcut is
shown below:
At this shortcut you can fill in your registration information, order 3D Chemical
Elements online or find out how to register and get your personal
registration code to unlock you copy of 3D Chemical Elements, remove registration
reminders and become a fully registered user entitled to free future upgrades
of 3D Chemical Elements and life-of-product technical support.
We do hope you will like 3D Chemical Elements!
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3D Chemilal Elements Keyboard Control?
Keyboard Control:
Keyboard Control:
'Esc' - exit screensaver
'F1'/'F2'/'F3'/'F4'/'F9' - show: this help/atom info/Mendeleev Table/Configuration
Dialog/FPS
'F5'/'F6' - decrease/increase music volume
'F7'/'F8' - decrease/increase sound volume
'F11'/F12' - decrease/increase screen brightness
'tab' - change current Arrange Atoms mode
'shift' + 'tab' - change current global Preset.
'1'-'7' - show orbitals of particular energy level
's', 'p', 'd', 'f' - show s, p, d, f orbitals
'c'/'o'/'h' - show/hide electron clouds/orbitals/non active atoms
'a'/'b'/'i' - change atom mode/atom group mode/electron info mode
'e'/'q'/'t' - change electron/quark mode/atom order mode
't' - show/hide clock
'g' - show/hide galaxy texture (in Artistic Preset only)
'Pause/Break' - Freeze Camera
'Ctrl' + 'c' - enable/disable camera hard cuts
Left/Right Arrows/'space' - move to next/previous/random atom
Up/Down Arrows - move to next/previous atom galaxy
Home/End/PgUp/PgDn - precisely ajust camera position
'+'/'-' move camera forward/backward
Shift + '+'/'-' - adjust Electron Speed
Ctrl + '+'/'-' - adjust Camera Speed
'Shift' + 'F11'/'F12' - adjust Nebulas Amount
'Ctrl' + 'F11'/'F12' - adjust Nucleus Glow
'm' - enable/disable mouse control
You will see additional hints on each key after pressing it.
Mouse Control:
Single click on Left/Right button - move to previous/next atom
Double click on Left/Right button - move to next/previous atom galaxy
Rotate Mouse Wheel - move camera forward/backward
Move mouse up/down/left/right - precisely ajust camera position
Move mouse up/down/left/right while 'CTRL' key is pressed - move camera around
the current atom
For more options please go to screensaver settings dialog!
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3D Chemical Elements Mouse Control?
In most built-in presets exept 'Electron Clouds', 'Craze Race'
and 'Individual Electrons' the Mouse Control is initially disabled.
This made in order to exit the screensaver easily by moving the mouse.
You can enable Mouse Control either:
- by unchecking 'Exit on Mouse Move' checkbox from the Screensaver Settings
Dialog - Global Options shorcut or
- by pressing 'M' key while screensaver is running in fullscreen mode (you will
see the tooltip in the bottom of the screen telling that Mouse Control is turned
On).
To disable Mouse Control please check 'Exit on Mouse Move' checkbox again or
press 'M' buttom once more.
After the Mouse Control is turned On - you can easily move camera by moving
the mouse. You can also use Mouse Wheel to zoom in/out.
You can use mouse buttons to change current Atom. Single click on any key will
change Atoms. Double click will change Atom Groups.
Left mouse key will move camera to Atoms with less Index number so you will
see Chemical Elements with less Atom mass. Right mouse key will move the camera
to Atoms with greater Index number and Atom mass.
You can change Atom Group mode by pressing 'B' button on keyboard.
If Atom Group mode is OFF - each single mouse click will move camera
to the Atom with next /previous Index number. If Atom Group mode is
ON each single mouse click will move camera to the next/previous Atom in the
current Atom Group.
In all built-in presets exept 'Artistic' Atom Group mode
is initially OFF.
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3D Chemical Elements Taskbar Launcher?
If you Start a Taskbar Launcher you will get some additional facilities to
make your life even easier. You will see a small atom icon in the right bottom
corner of your screen in windows taskbar.
You can click it with any mouse button and you will see the following context
menu:
Now you can easily Run 3D Chemical Elements, Configure it or open windows ScreenSaver
properties dialog. You can also enable/disable the screensaver from it and open
this help.
If you don't want to have the Taskbar Launcher - you can Close it anytime.
If you don't want to load it with Windows - you can uncheck Autostart Taskbar
Launcher checkbox in Global Options shortcut of Configuration
Dialog.
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Uninstall
There are two ways to uninstall 3D Chemical Elements Screensaver:
Method 1:
1. Click on the Start Menu on the Microsoft Windows task bar
2. Click on Programs
3. Search for 3D Chemical Elements Screensaver folder within the listed Programs
4. Navigate to Uninstall 3D Chemical Elements Screensaver
5. Click on Uninstall.
Method 2:
1. Click on the Start Menu on the Microsoft Windows task bar.
2. Click on Settings
3. Click on Control Panel
4. From the Control Panel, find and click on 'Add/Remove Programs'
5. Within the 'Add/Remove Programs' list of programs, select 3D Chemical Elements Screensaver.
6. Press the button, Add/Remove.
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Feedback
We are very interested in your feedback to improve the product. If you like
3D Chemical Elements or have any suggestions you are welcome to send a message
to feedback@7art-screensavers.com.
For technical support and other questions please also contact - feedback@7art-screensavers.com.
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