Crystallographic resources

Balls & Sticks

Entered: Wed Oct 07 2015

Operating systems: MS Windows

Type: Binary

Languages: C

Distribution: Free

Application fields: Teaching; Visualization

Bibliography: Ozawa, T. C. & Kang, S. J. (2004). J. Appl. Cryst. 37, 679.

Description: Balls & Sticks is a program to create 3D image and animation of crystal structures. It was designed with the emphasis on ease of use. It imports CIF files, then polyhedra and bonds can be defined by mouse-cliking on end-member atoms. All the other operations are also implemented via the graphical user interface.

References: http://toycrate.web.fc2.com/bs/index.html



Last updated: 15 Oct 2021