Vivant - from Tableau Vivant - ``A scene presented on stage by costumed actors who remain silent and motionless as if in a picture.''
- The American Heritage ©Dictionary of the English Language
As suggested by the definition above, Vivant initially appears to be a silent and motionless picture, but in reality it is live and the user can interact with the seemingly stationary scene. Vivant aims to communicate via three dimensional interaction rather than just presentation.
Like VIDA, Vivant is a communication tool too, developed to enable easy and broad sharing of chemical information. Vivant is designed to communicate the output of VIDA (via state files) in a Microsoft PowerPointTMpresentation or web page.