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VESTA 3 for three-dimensional visualization of crystal, volumetric and morphology data

2011/10/28 by Koichi Momma, Fujio Izumi · 25,567 citations
Chemical Engineering · Chemistry · Materials Science · Mathematics · #Artificial intelligence #Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions #Chemistry #Computational science #Computer graphics (images) #Computer science #Crystallography #Data visualization #Geography #Geometry #Interactive visualization #Machine Learning in Materials Science #Mathematics #Rendering (computer graphics) #Subdivision #Undo #Visualization #Voronoi diagram #X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

paper · doi:10.1107/s0021889811038970

published in Journal of Applied Crystallography 44(6), 1272-1276 (Wiley)

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Abstract

VESTA is a three-dimensional visualization system for crystallographic studies and electronic state calculations. It has been upgraded to the latest version, VESTA 3 , implementing new features including drawing the external morphology of crystals; superimposing multiple structural models, volumetric data and crystal faces; calculation of electron and nuclear densities from structure parameters; calculation of Patterson functions from structure parameters or volumetric data; integration of electron and nuclear densities by Voronoi tessellation; visualization of isosurfaces with multiple levels; determination of the best plane for selected atoms; an extended bond-search algorithm to enable more sophisticated searches in complex molecules and cage-like structures; undo and redo in graphical user interface operations; and significant performance improvements in rendering isosurfaces and calculating slices.

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