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VESTA |
| version 1.4.3 |
| About VESTA |
VESTA is a 3D visualization program for structural models and volumetric data such as electron/nuclear densities.
VESTA stands for "Visualization of Electronic and STructural Analysis". It is a cross-platform program written in the C++ language with full use of OpenGL technology.
Structural models are represented as ball-and-stick, space-filling, polyhedral, wireframe, stick, and thermal-ellipsoid models. Ball-and-stick, wireframe, and stick models can be overlapped with dotted surfaces corresponding to van der Waals radii.
Electron/nuclear densities, wave functions, and electrostatic potentials are visualized as isosurfaces, bird’s-eye views, and two-dimensional (2D) maps. VESTA has a feature of surface colorization to show another kind of a physical quantity at each point on isosurfaces. Translucent isosurfaces can be overlapped with a structural model.
VESTA can read 38 file formats such as CIF, ICSD, INS, and PDB. Electron densities calculated by various programs including PRIMA (MEM), superflip (charge flipping), and WinGX (Fourier synthesis) can be directly read in. VESTA can handle virtually unlimited number of objects such as atoms, bonds, polyhedra, and polygons on isosurfaces. VESTA supports multiple windows, each of which may contain multiple tabs corresponding to files.
Requirements
This application requires GTK+ version 2.4.x.
Other dependencies include:
Mesa OpenGL libraries.
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| Latest Version: 1.4.3 |
- Fixed a bug introduced in v1.2b that conversions of fractional coordinates between different origin choices were incorrect in tetragonal and cubic space groups.
- Fixed an issue where the setting files of VESTA were stored in wrong place when an environment variable "VESTA_PREF" is set.
- Fixed a bug where some polyhedra were still shown even when "Show polyhedra" option is disabled in the "Bonds" dialog.
- When changing lattice settings of orthorhombic space groups, now standard deviations of lattice parameters are also transformed.
- Files used for simulation of powder diffraction patterns will not be automatically deleted any more.
- Added license statements in "About" dialog.
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