As part of the LMGP Crystallography software suite for Windows
by Jean Laugier and Bernard Bochu:
(Laboratoire des Materiaux et du Génie Physique de l'Ecole
Supérieure de Physique de Grenoble http://www.inpg.fr/LMGP/)
One of the newly available crystallographic packages is
Orient Express for Windows.
OrientExpress makes it possible to orient a single crystal of
known unit cell dimensions from a single Laue pattern. This
pattern can be registered on a flat or cylindrical detector :
X Rays film, two-dimentional sensitive detector, bitmap picture.
I can be applied to mineral, organic and protein crystals.
The software can use spot positions from a file or can graphically
select spots from a DMP image file; and has an interface to connect
to digitiser tablets.
After indexing, OrientExpress then gives further options for simulation
and re-orientation that you can explore. This includes calculation of
angles to reorient the crystal.
A (superficial) tutorial run-through of OrientExpress is available at:
http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/tutorial/lmgp/orientexpress.htm
And the program (with example files) can be download from the LMGP
Crystallography software suite website at:
http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp/web-mirrors/lmgp-laugier-bochu/
Lachlan.
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Lachlan M. D. Cranswick
Collaborative Computational Project No 14 (CCP14)
for Single Crystal and Powder Diffraction
Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, WA4 4AD U.K
Tel: +44-1925-603703 Fax: +44-1925-603124
E-mail: l.cranswick at dl.ac.uk Ext: 3703 Room C14
http://www.ccp14.ac.uk
