Tutorial: Building a Buckygun

This tutorial leads the user through building a "buckygun", which vaguely resembles an atomic-scale gun. The projectile is a buckyball, the barrel is a buckytube, and the propellant is high-pressure hydrogen. The following animated GIF shows the final result; click on it to see a larger (280KB) version:
Several things need to be said immediately about this animation: The tutorial has the following sections:
Basic Scene Editing (83KB)
Editing Molecules (43KB)
Building the Projectile the Easy Way (20KB) or the Hard Way (41KB)
Building the Barrel (127KB)
Loading the Gun (114KB)
Animating using brennermd (288KB) or the brennerc plugin

Copyright 2003 Tim Freeman <tim@fungible.com>