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
.
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 $@