A question of crystal representation

[Martin Kroeker]

In bionet.xtallography Luis Ferreira <nop17219 at mail.telepac.pt> wrote:

> I'm a secondary school teacher here in Portugal. I want to represent a
> CuSO4.5H2O crystal rendered in POVRAY for didactical proposes.
[...]
> With crystals of inorganic compounds I don't know how do the same thing.

Armel Le Bail has already mentioned his software and the free subset of 
the ICSD. You might also want to try the free program DRAWxtl, available
from http://www.lwfinger.net/drawxtl , which allows creating both VRML and 
POV files from a variety of crystallographic data formats. (Some examples
can be found on the webpage, a lot more are available in the online lecture
notes at http://ruby.chemie.uni-freiburg.de - the text of the latter is in
German only, however).

HTH,
Martin
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