molecular rotor animation rendered in Blender

I think blender can be a very useful tool for scientific visualizations, particularly with respect to visualizations of molecular dynamics simulations. There's a couple of missing steps as far as I can tell, but I'm working on them and will save that for the next post. However if you just want to make some eye candy, you can pretty much dive right in. This is a good example of something I've come to understand: modeling stuff is easy, the tricky part is making those models represent something relevant.