Re: crystal structure?
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- Subject: [mg19647] Re: crystal structure?
- From: Dr Phillip Kent <p.kent at ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 00:28:40 -0400
- Organization: Imperial College
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Big Fish wrote: > > Is there a painless way to draw a nice, smooth, > ball-and-stick type, preferably with a 3D shading, > crystal or molecular structure using Mathematica? > For ideas, check out: http://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/chem/ under "Lab 3". It depends how smooth you want the spheres to appear - because Mathematica graphics are based on postscript, smooth-looking spheres are memory-hungry, though shouldn't be a problem if your computer is a fairly recent (>= 233 MHz or so) model. -Phillip ----------------------------------+---------------------------- Dr Phillip Kent | tel +44 (0)171 594 8503 Mathematics Dept (METRIC Project)| fax +44 (0)171 594 8517 Imperial College | p.kent at ic.ac.uk London SW7 2BZ, U.K. | ----------------------------------+---------------------------- "We would like to have a theory of the obvious"-Andrea diSessa