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pitaj

That's pretty neat. I think a couple improvements would be:

- Some kind of feedback over whether the compound name is valid or not

- Validation on the SMILES input

- Whether it's working on building the picture or not

- Autocomplete for the compound name

- Different colors for each element

- Preset color pallettes

- List of "cool-looking" or "most often used" compounds

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Some great suggestions here, really appreciate you taking the time to list them out!

Nice Service!

Would also suggest adding the ability to set the size of the rendered image. Especially for picking sizes for devices.

Also, if you want to make some pocket change from this, link it to cafepress and let me self-print molecules on a bunch of things (stickers!).

And perhaps call it "image generator" rather than "wallpaper generator". I thought it was going to do something special that was suited specifically suited for a wallpaper.

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