XR-SHAPE

(page last modified on April,16,1996)

This is a subprogram of XR95 compiled for separate release. It allows you to draw the habit of a crystal after giving the indices of the planes (hkl) and their distances from the origin. This program will remain a separate compilation for the near future , because at the moment I cannot implement it into XR95 itself, due to the existing DOS-barrier for static variables.

If you could create some nice-looking crystal shapes with this program, please send me some input files (*.ind). At a later stage I plan to implement VRML output. (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) Then you could put your shapes into your homepages for browsing with a 3D-viewer. This would offer many more possibilities for the resulting graphics, such as a real shading and transparency.

Check also my Java applets JShape and JCrystalApplet and my Java program JCrystal.

Screen Example

main features

• display of predefined crystal shapes
• stereo pairs
• indexing of faces by mouseclick
• four different display modes (also user defined colors)
• PostScript output (with shading in b/w or color)
• integrated input file editor (*.ind files)

Graphics Output

1. PostScript Example
2. PostScript Example
3. PostScript Example

Release Notes
- first release on March/04/1996
still some bugs present, which I try to eliminate soon
- update from March/09/1996
slight changes in PS-output
input distances are now absolut distances