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Crystallographic Education Online
Educational Resources
Aperiodic Crystallography
QuasiTiler 3.0 by Geometry Center, University of Minnesota. QuasiTiler draws Penrose tilings and their generalizations.
Crystallographic CourseWare by M. E. Kastner - Instructions on growing single crystals, symmetry elements, plane groups, unit cell and asymmetric units, and reading the International Tables of Crystallography.
Crystallographic CourseWare by M. E. Kastner - Instructions on growing single crystals, symmetry elements, plane groups, unit cell and asymmetric units, and reading the International Tables of Crystallography.
An introductory exercise in Fourier synthesis and structure-factor calculation for undergraduates, using an EXCEL workbook by M. R. Taylor. J. Appl. Cryst. (2000). 33, 975-976.
Pepinsky's Machine: an interactive graphics-based Fourier synthesis program with applications in teaching and research by N. M. Glykos. J. Appl. Cryst. (1999). 32, 821-823.
Derivation of the rotation matrix in general rectilinear systems by means of vector and matrix formalism by K. Stróz. J. Appl. Cryst. (1996). 29, 736-737.
POLYNET - a teaching program for the plane crystallographic groups, for use on Apple Macintosh computers by S. G. Hoggar. J. Appl. Cryst. (1996). 28, 459.
FOURDEM: a program written as an aid to teaching the elements of Fourier synthesis and other crystallographic concepts by T. R. Welberry and K. Owen. (1992). J. Appl. Cryst. (1992). 25, 443-447.
Crystallographic CourseWare by M. E. Kastner - Instructions on growing single crystals, symmetry elements, plane groups, unit cell and asymmetric units, and reading the International Tables of Crystallography.
Crystallographic Topology 101, a tutorial by C. K. Johnson, The Topology of Crystallographic Groups and Simple Crystal Structures
Pepinsky's Machine by N. M. Glykos, a research tool to permit the systematic calculation of permutation syntheses for all centrosymmetric plane groups.
Space group tutorial. By Jerry Jasinski and Bruce Foxman.
Version 1.0 includes the monoclinic and triclinic groups, and
later versions will go further.