SingleCrystal offers crystal visualization
updated 09:50 pm EST, Sat January 15, 2005
SingleCrystal for Mac OS X
CrystalMaker has released for Mac OS X, an easy-to-use program for visualizing and understanding diffraction patterns from single crystals: the laboratory technique used to solve the structures of virtually all crystalline materials. SingleCrystal's advanced display capabilities allow users to manipulate simulated diffraction patterns in real time, rotating virtual crystals with the computer mouse or toolbar tilt controls, and observing changes in diffraction. The application's screen tools allow easy measurement and indexing of reflexions, as well as the display of phase information for scattered beams. It is available now for $90 for a single-user academic version.
Simulation modes currently include transmission electron diffraction, reciprocal lattice and weighted reciprocal lattice modes. The program also features rotatable stereographic projections of lattice plane traces and poles, which can be extensively customized.
SingleCrystal is designed to work with the award-winning CrystalMaker 6 crystal structures visualization program. Users can display a crystal
structures in CrystalMaker, then with a single menu command, display
the corresponding diffraction pattern in SingleCrystal. The program can
also be used as a stand-alone application, reading from CrystalMaker
binary files (selection included with the demo version).
