Using XtalDraw to Make Animated GIF's part of Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography
Robert Downs, University of Arizona One of the most famous and most studied phase transitions in minerals is the transformation of quartz from the α to the β phase as a function of temperature. At around ...

Example Exercises and Activities part of Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography
Directed Discovery of Crystal Structures David Mogk and Kent Ratajeski In this exercise, students download crystal structures for viewing and manipulation with visualization software. By answering a series of ...

Physical vs. Virtual Models part of Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography
Do students prefer physical, hands-on crystal structure models (e.g., physical ball-and-stick and polyhedral types) or those generated by the computer? Does its depend on which concepts the models are being used ...

Crystallography Home part of Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography
Introduction Perception and understanding of three dimensional crystal structures is a source of difficulty for many introductory students of mineralogy. Traditionally, physical models of crystal structures (e.g., ...

Background: Teaching with Models and Visualizations part of Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography
Crystallographic visualization programs are just one example of visual models which find application in geoscience education. For a more detailed discussion of using these tools in the classroom and in other ...

Tutorials part of Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography
These pages contain brief tutorials supporting the visualization programs for imaging and manipulating crystal structures. The tutorial pages are listed by the visualization program they support. CrystalMaker ...

Visualization Software part of Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography
CrystalMaker. This is the website to obtain demo and commerical versions of the program CrystalMaker, a program for building, displaying, and manipulating all kinds of crystal and molecular structures. The program ...

Crystal Structure Databases part of Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography
The following online resources contain files which can be downloaded for interactive viewing either from a stand-alone visualization software or viewed from the website as a Java applet. American Mineralogist ...

Background: Teaching with Data part of Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography
Data and databases are finding increasing use in earth science education, and the new online crystal structure databases are just one example. Some of the reasons for using data in education are explored in detail ...

Using XtalDraw to Save Crystal Structures as "Unknowns" part of Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography
Kent Ratajeski, Montana State University It is fairly easy to use XtalDraw to remove mineral names and other identifying metadata from crystal structure files. Just follow the directions below. Note: Removal of ...