CrystalWeb
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Project Proposal
October 7, 2004
Ed Barnard
Stephanie Silberstein
Frederick Wang
Harris Wang
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Agenda
•What is Crystallography?
•Project Objectives
•Plan of Action
•Technologies
•Timeline
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Crystallography
Crystallography (noun):
The branch of science that studies the formation
and structure of crystals
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Crystallography
Materials Science Pyramid
Structure
Properties
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Processing
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Motivation
•Crystals hard to visualize in 2-D space
•Need for educational tools
•Self-exploration of crystal structures
•Lack of user-friendly crystal databases
•Promote interest in crystallography
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Objectives
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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Target Audiences
•College students studying crystals
•People interested in materials science
•Eventually…researchers using database
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Atomic Control
•Standalone application for building crystal models
•Java 1.4
•Swing UI
•Java3D API
•Windows/Mac/Linux
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Site Map
Home
Education
Welcome
Crystal
Structure
Database
Search
Crystal of
the Day!
2D
Download
Manual
Purpose
1D
Browse
Software
Results
Entries
3D
Diffraction
Geometry
Symmetry
Math
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Website Technologies
•Dynamically generated using PHP
•CSS to determine look and feel
•HTML for content
•MySQL for database storage
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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 Presentation
Final report
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Summary
•Crystallography is cool!
•Promote interest in crystallography
•Web-based teaching tool
•Establish an online database
•Any questions?....
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