Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey.
Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey.
J Mol Graph Model. 2014 May;50:50-60. doi: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2014.03.007. Epub 2014 Mar 30.
Visualization of the materials is an indispensable part of their structural analysis. We developed a visualization tool for amorphous as well as crystalline structures, called MaterialVis. Unlike the existing tools, MaterialVis represents material structures as a volume and a surface manifold, in addition to plain atomic coordinates. Both amorphous and crystalline structures exhibit topological features as well as various defects. MaterialVis provides a wide range of functionality to visualize such topological structures and crystal defects interactively. Direct volume rendering techniques are used to visualize the volumetric features of materials, such as crystal defects, which are responsible for the distinct fingerprints of a specific sample. In addition, the tool provides surface visualization to extract hidden topological features within the material. Together with the rich set of parameters and options to control the visualization, MaterialVis allows users to visualize various aspects of materials very efficiently as generated by modern analytical techniques such as the Atom Probe Tomography.
材料的可视化是其结构分析不可或缺的一部分。我们开发了一种用于非晶态和晶态结构的可视化工具，称为 MaterialVis。与现有的工具不同，MaterialVis 除了普通的原子坐标外，还将材料结构表示为一个体积和一个曲面流形。非晶态和晶态结构都表现出拓扑特征和各种缺陷。MaterialVis 提供了广泛的功能来交互式地可视化这些拓扑结构和晶体缺陷。直接体渲染技术用于可视化材料的体积特征，例如晶体缺陷，这些特征是特定样品独特指纹的原因。此外，该工具还提供了表面可视化功能，以提取材料内部隐藏的拓扑特征。结合丰富的参数集和用于控制可视化的选项，MaterialVis 允许用户非常有效地可视化各种现代分析技术（如原子探针层析术）生成的材料。
