GeomCreate Dev Blog #1

This is the first blog post for the development of GeomCreate. GeomCreate is a planned program that I am writing in Python with a PySide6 backend. My goal with this program is to make a platform where it is easy and free to create manuscript quality images for chemistry and visualize molecules. The primary use case for this program will be 2D and 3D molecular images, but will be expanded upon in the future to create other figures like graphs and PES diagrams.

The motivation behind this project stems from my time as a graduate student trying to make nice looking figures for manuscripts. There are plenty of programs that can be used for molecular visualization and figure making but I have found that the majority of them are 1) difficult to install, 2) difficult to use, or 3) cost money. As a poor grad student with not enough time on my hands, I found these programs frustrating so I decided to make my own that would be easy to install and use and be free.

As I continue to develop this program I will continue to make more blog posts under the geomcreate tag so check them out if you are interested.