VESTA 3

Entered: Fri Mar 23 2012

Operating systems: Linux; MS-DOS; MS Windows

Type: Binary

Languages: C++

Distribution: Free

Application fields:

Bibliography: Momma, K. & Izumi, F. (2011). J. Appl. Cryst. 44, 1272-1276

Description: 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.

References: http://www.geocities.jp/kmo_mma/