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DRAWxtl - DISPLAYS CRYSTAL STRUCTURES
- Description:
The program DRAWxtl is the result of the collaboration of Larry W. Finger ,
retired from the Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, DC, Martin Kroeker,
Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Universität Freiburg,
Germany, and Brian Toby , Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory,
USA.
The purpose of this program is to display crystal structures on ordinary
computer hardware and operating systems. Four forms of graphics are produced:
(1) an openGL window for immediate viewing,
(2) the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer (POV-RAY) scene language for
publication-quality drawings,
(3) the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) for dissemination across the
Internet, and
(4) a Postscript rendering of the OpenGL window for those that want
high-quality output but do not have POV-RAY installed.
The current program is an outgrowth of a former version named crystal that was
written by Finger for the proprietary hardware and software of Advanced
Visualization System.
Reference:
Larry W. Finger, Martin Kroeker, and Brian H. Toby, DRAWxtl, an open-source
computer program to produce crystal-structure drawings,
J. Applied Crystallography V40, pp. 188-192, 2007
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