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Author:
Sean Fleming
Introduction
GDIS is a GTK based program for the display and manipulation of isolated molecules and periodic systems. It is in development, but is nonetheless quite functional. It has the following features:- Support for many common file formats (eg CIF, PDB, XTL, XYZ).
- OpenGL rendering.
- Assorted tools for visualization (measurements, ribbons, polyhedral display).
- Useful manipulation tools, including matrix transformations and supercell construction.
- Powerful surface generation and crystal morphology tools.
- Diffraction pattern generation and plotting.
- Animation and movie generation for multi-frame files.
- Analysis of Molecular Dynamics simulations.
- Model rendering (courtesy of POVRay)
- Energy minimization (courtesy of GULP)
- Morphology calculation (courtesy of cdd)
- Space group processing (courtesy of SgInfo)
- View the Periodic Table (courtesy of GPeriodic)
Although developed on a Linux platform, GDIS has been successfully compiled under IRIX, Solaris, OpenBSD, and OS-X. I've even built a Window's executable using the mingw32 cross-compiler!
The source code is released under the GPL.
Development versions
If you have CVS installed, you can obtain the very latest version of GDIS by typing:cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@gdis.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gdis login
Hit enter at the password prompt, then type:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@gdis.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gdis co gdis
which should create a subdirectory called gdis containing all the source files.
Enter the gdis subdirectory and run the install script, which should automatically compile gdis based on your preferences.
It should also inform you of missing libraries that must be installed.