Javascript to the resque?
Javascript is old enough\cite{release} to be allow to legally drink almost everywhere in the world, and has been massively employed by computational molecular scientist for visualization. Yet, it is not part of any academic paper. There are dozens of molecular viewers based on Javascript, with3dmol.js
\cite{Rego_2014} being the one used in figures \ref{117222},\ref{174742}.
The figure below was created clicking on Insert -> Interactive Figure and then selecting a local file with the following code: