CrystalWeb
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Final Report
December 7, 2004
Ed Barnard
Stephanie Silberstein
Frederick Wang
Harris Wang
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Introduction
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Motivation
Website
•Web-accessible visualizations of 3-D crystals
•Descriptions and examples of crystal structures
•Crystal information database
•Provide interactive software tools
Software
•Allow users to build and explore crystals
•Provide online user manual
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Audience
•College students studying crystals
•People interested in materials science
•Eventually…researchers using database
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Introduction
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Introduction
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Introduction
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Usability Test
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AtomicControl
• Standalone application for building crystal models
• Java 1.4
• Swing UI
• Java3D API
• Windows/Mac/Linux
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Website Technologies
• HTML dynamically generated using PHP
• CSS to determine look and feel
• Browser compatibility
• MySQL for database storage
• Image storage and retrieval
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Member Roles
• Ed: Database, PHP, software
• Stephanie: Website/graphics design, site content
• Frederick: Graphics design, database
• Harris: Project manager, site content, database
• Prof. Samuel Allen: Faculty Advisor for
AtomicControl Project
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Project Timeline
Oct
8
15
Nov
22
4
9
Dec
23
9
Skeleton Site
Complete Site
Usability Test
Final Site
Written Proposal
Progress Report
Final report
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Future Directions
• AtomicControl project will be Ed’s senior thesis
• Use in classrooms:
3.012, 3.014, and 3.091
• Addition to Athena and OCW
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Questions?
Thank you for your attention!
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