Crystallography:

Materials Science Pyramid

Structure
Processing
Properties
Performance

In order to understand the others, structure must be understood

structure is causes properties and performance, and is determined by processing conditions

The study of understanding the structure of crystals.

involves discovering structure and understanding how structure affects properties.



n : the branch of science that studies the formation and structure of crystals



AtomicControl:

A standalone application for building virtual crystal models

Java 1.4
Swing UI
Java3D API

Windows/Mac/Linux

Website:
dynamically generated: PHP

CSS to determine Look and Feel
HTML for content
MySQL for database storage