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Despite significant progress in protein structure engineering, exemplified by AlphaFold2 and OmegaFold, there remains a gap in understanding the folding pathways of polypeptide chains leading to their final structures. We developed a lightweight tool for protein unfolding visualization called PUV whose graphics design is mainly implemented by OpenGL. PUV leverages principles from molecular biology and physics, and achieves rapid visual dynamics simulation of protein polypeptide chain unfolding through mechanical force and atom-level collision detection and elimination. 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