Based on our record, Skanect should be more popular than Jmol. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. 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 use Skanect with my high school students. Like others said, it's pretty blobby, but works for miniatures that I make the kids. I'm not sure if it still exists after the buyout, but the "try" version used to be free with the caveat of only being a 5000 poly export (I usually export at around a million for my models). Source: about 2 years ago
Skanect works the best, but you also need to install the OpenNI2 drivers. Skanect is also a paid program, in theory, although you can eternally use the trial version just fine if you know how to be creative with the options the trial version freely offers., last I knew. I liked it enough to purchase the most recent version after skimming by with the workarounds for a while. Source: almost 3 years ago
I got the pro version of Skanect 1.11 from: Https://skanect.occipital.com/. Source: almost 3 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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