Code for POV and VRML crystal structure views, MAC Version now

Larry W. Finger ( (no email) )
Tue, 17 Jun 1997 16:43:09 +0200

Sorry about the previous posting. The local management moved my Web pages
for the second time in a few weeks. I am assured that this machine will be
the home for a long (?) time. Note new URL below.

A program by Martin Kroeker (Technische Hochschule Darmstadt) and Larry
Finger (Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth and Geophysical Laboratory,
Washington) that produces Persistence of Vision (POV) and Virtual Reality
Modelling Language (VRML) renderings of crystal structures is available
through http://btgix8.bgi.uni-bayreuth.de/~lafi/DRAWxtl.html. The Web site
now has Macintosh executables, both for M68K and PowerPC models.

The main features of this program are:

It is free. We distribute executables and source code (in C).
It runs on a wide variety of platforms from PCs to workstations, including
Macintosh.
It generates ball-and-stick or polyhedral diagrams, and can plot atoms as
spheres or as thermal ellipsoids.
The diagrams can be in color, as well as, black and white.
Polyhedra can be of any complexity - not just tetrahedra and octahedra.
It can read structural information from data files in GSAS, SHELX, SCHAKAL,
CIF, or CSD formats.

Larry

--Larry W. Finger		Larry.Finger@uni-bayreuth.deBayerisches Geoinstitut              Phone: 0921-553737Universitaet Bayreuth                FAX:   0921-553769D-95440 Bayreuth                     Web:  http://granite.ciw.edu/~finger/Germany                                   orhttp://www.bgi.uni-bayreuth.de/~lafi