Jmol might be a bit more popular than Bforartists. We know about 1 link to it since March 2021 and only 1 link to Bforartists. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I also suggest getting BforArtists. Source: almost 2 years ago
Mercury's functions are great and numerous, the program sadly became a bit resource hungry (better to spend 8 than 4GB of RAM, about 700+MB on the hard disk for a permanent installation. In this perspective, it is nice Jmol equally can be used to display/highlight symmetry relationships in crystals (link to an animated .gif) for less than 70MB when using Jmol's console. Source: about 1 year ago
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