Package drawxtl: Information

Source package: drawxtl

Version: 5.4-alt1

Build time:  Dec 14, 2009, 02:04 AM

Category: Sciences/Chemistry

Home page: http://www.lwfinger.net/drawxtl

License: GPLv2

Summary: 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 fur Anorganische und Analytische Chemie,
Universitat 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:

- an OpenGL window for immediate viewing,
- the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer (POV-RAY) scene language
  for publication-quality drawings,
- the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) for dissemination
  across the Internet, and
- 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

List of rpms provided by this srpm:
drawxtl (x86_64, i586)

Maintainer: Michael Shigorin