CrystalWebCrystals you can play with!

Ed BarnardStephanie Silberstein

Frederick WangHarris Wang

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Project ProposalOctober 7, 2004

Agenda

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•What is Crystallography?

•Project Objectives

•Plan of Action

•Technologies

•Timeline

Crystallography

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Crystallography (noun):

The branch of science that studies the formation and structure of crystals

Crystallography

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Structure

Properties Processing

Materials Science Pyramid

Motivation

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•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

Objectives

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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

Target Audiences

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•College students studying crystals

•People interested in materials science

•Eventually…researchers using database

Atomic Control

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•Standalone application for building crystal models

•Java 1.4

•Swing UI

•Java3D API

•Windows/Mac/Linux

Site Map

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Home Education Database Software

Search

Results

Entries

BrowseWelcome

Purpose

Crystal of the Day!

Crystal Structure

1D

2D

3D

Diffraction

Geometry

Symmetry

Math

Download

Manual

Website Technologies

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•Dynamically generated using PHP

•CSS to determine look and feel

•HTML for content

•MySQL for database storage

Member Roles

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•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

Project Timeline

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Complete Site

Final Site

Usability Test

Oct Nov8 15 22 4 9 23 9

Final Presentation

Skeleton Site

Final report

Written Proposal

Progress Report

Dec

Summary

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•Crystallography is cool!

•Promote interest in crystallography

•Web-based teaching tool

•Establish an online database

•Any questions?....