VESTA

Description

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

User instructions

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

$ module load vesta/3.4.0

The command to launch VESTA is vesta.

Source

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

License

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

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:

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