A WWW server for 3D crystal structures in VRML

Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble ( hewat@ill.fr )
Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:43:48 +0200

A WWW server for 3D crystal structures in VRML is on

http://www.ill.fr/dif/xtal-3d.html

You simply paste your CCSL, Shel-X or Lazy Pulverix
co-ordinates file in into this WWW page, select some options,
and press DISPLAY.

The structure will be displayed in live 3D, provided you have
set up your WWW viewer appropriately and have a VRML
plug-in (help pages are provided).

VRML viewers are now available for (almost) all computers,
from PC's and Macintoshes to SGI, DEC, HP.. Unix workstations.
Even on a 486-DX, 3D rotation speed is sufficient for simple
structures.

xtal-3d is designed mainly for inorganic structures, and will
draw co-ordination polyhedrae, ball-and-stick, space-filling etc
models from standard crystallographic files (including Rietveld,
GSAS, Fullprof, SirPow etc. if the xtal-3d application itself is used).

But there may be problems if many people connect to our WWW
server simultaneously :-)

Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE fax (33) 76.48.39.06 hewat@ill.fr
ftp://ftp.ill.fr/pub/dif http://193.49.43.3/dif/3D_crystals.html