Kinemages, Mage and KiNG
From Proteopedia
Kinemages (a term derived from "kinetic images") are interactive molecular visualizations that are displayed in a free, stand-alone program called Mage, or in a free java applet called KiNG (which means Kinemage, Next Generation).
Kinemages show the author's viewpoint -- pre-programmed scenes of a macromolecule (or other 3D object). The prescient design of Kinemages in the early 1990's presaged the Internet which followed a few years later: Kinemages have an interactive molecular view, scrolling text descriptions, and menus that display a sequence of molecular scenes. Many molecular structure tutorial mechanisms have subsequently flattered Kinemages by imitating their design (see, for example, tutorials in Chime and Jmol cataloged at the World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources).
KiNG may be used in Proteopedia. An example may be seen at Hemoglobin#Hemoglobin_subunit_binding_O2. However, the scenes displayed in KiNG must be authored by a relatively complicated and technical process, in contrast to the Scene Authoring Tools implemented for Jmol in Proteopedia. Also, while green links in text can change the molecular scene in Jmol, this is not implemented for KiNG.
Historically, kinemages, initially released in 1992[1], were the first widely available software capable of rotating macromolecules on personal computers (followed in 1993 by RasMol). The journal
