Electron density reloaded

Here is an interactive version of a figure I described in a previous post. Click on the picture to load it. Remember it's Jmol so you can rotate it and zoom as you like (Mac users: this works best with Safari).

Figure 3.1. The RHF/6-31G(d) electron density of water.
Click on the picture for an interactive version

The Jmol animation loads this file (h2oprinc.xyz), which looks like this

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jmolscript: script "http://propka.ki.ku.dk/~jhjensen/h2odensity.spt"
O -0.0000 0.0643 0.0000
H -0.7541 -0.5091 0.0000
H 0.7541 -0.5091 0.0000

and which, in turn, loads a script (h2odensity.spt), which looks like this

isosurface planex plane {0 0 0 0} contour 20 color absolute 0.002 0.05 "http://propka.ki.ku.dk/~jhjensen/h2oprinc.cube.gz"
delay 3
spin y 20
delay 10
spin off
isosurface planey plane {1 0 0 0} contour 20 color absolute 0.002 0.05 "http://propka.ki.ku.dk/~jhjensen/h2oprinc.cube.gz"
spin y 20
delay 10
spin off
isosurface planez plane {0 1 0 0} contour 20 color absolute 0.002 0.05 "http://propka.ki.ku.dk/~jhjensen/h2oprinc.cube.gz"
spin x 40
delay 10
spin off
isosurface threed 0.002 "http://propka.ki.ku.dk/~jhjensen/h2oprinc.cube.gz"
color isosurface red ; color isosurface translucent 0.15
spin y 20
delay 10
spin off
color isosurface red ; color isosurface translucent 0.5
select all; spacefill 100 %babel
spin y 20
delay 10
spin off

The screencast below shows how I made the cube file that contains the electron density information using MacMolPlt. The program I used to convert the MacMolPlt file to a cube was written by Jonathan Gutow and can be download here. In the screencast I mistakenly named the cube file h2odensity.cube.gz, but that's easy to change.

I start by loading the RHF/6-31G(d) optimized geometry I computed for a previous post, and reorienting. The orientation makes it easier to define the plotting plane for the contour plots.