.. index:: VESTA
.. _VESTA:

VESTA
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Description
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VESTA is a 3D visualization program for structural models, volumetric data such as electron/nuclear densities, and crystal morphologies.

User instructions
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VESTA is available via the modules system.  To add it to your environment run:

.. code-block:: bash

    $ module load vesta/3.4.0

The command to launch VESTA is ``vesta``.

Source
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http://jp-minerals.org/vesta/en/

License
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Free to use in academia (but not open source).  Note that publications using figures from VESTA must appropriate acknowledge VESTA.  See http://jp-minerals.org/vesta/en/download.html for details.

Admin notes
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VESTA is supplied as a precompiled tarball.  It also doesn't have a particularly nice directory layout which fits in with our module system.  I instead used the following layout (created by hand):

    vesta-3.4.0/
               pkg/
                   # Contents of tarball.
               bin/
                   vesta

where vesta is the simple script:

.. code-block:: bash

    #!/bin/bash
    $(dirname $0)/../pkg/VESTA $@