IntroductionΒΆ
ascii-phonons is a package to produce attractive images and animations of phonon modes in crystals.
Visualisation is a powerful tool for the study of vibrations in the solid state. “Semi-automatic” animations have been generated for scientific publications, where they provide insight to spectroscopic observations. [1], [2] In order to make this type of imagery more accessible, and add some visual interest to ajjackson‘s PhD thesis, a more convenient and automatic toolchain has been developed.
Images are rendered using the open-source 3D animation package Blender. As Blender has a notoriously steep learning curve, a Command-line interface is provided which may be used to generate images without interacting with the Blender interface. It is intended that a simple Graphical user interface will also be made available.
| [1] | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4917044 (see animation ) |
| [2] | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.144308 (see animation) |
