POV-Ray

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 3 ★★★

An application for three-dimensional visualization with the ray tracing method. This application can visualize arbitrary positions and shapes of objects such as spheres and cubes. It can visualize three-dimensional data obtained from computational fluid dynamics etc. by volume rendering. It can also be used for simple three-dimensional graphical simulator with macro functions.

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Avogadro

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 2 ★★☆

An open-source application of molecular modeling/editing for quantum chemical calculation. This application supports graphical user interface (GUI) for input-file preparation for software of quantum chemical calculation such as GAMESS, Gaussian, etc., and displays their results by reading output files. It can also make movies in the formats of vector graphics, POV-Ray, and so on.

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OVITO

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 3 ★★★

An open-source application for visualization of atoms and molecules developed for molecular dynamics. This application supports a number of input file formats for molecular configration, and can perform visualization of three-dimensional atom configration as well as creation of a animation. The main feature of this application is that various useful analysis tools can be used by intuitive control of a graphical user interface (GUI).

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TAPIOCA

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 2 ★★☆

A tool of input-file preparation and visualization for xTAPP, an application of the first-principle calculation. By graphical user interface (GUI), this application helps xTAPP users for making input files, and visualizes results of wavefunctions, electron densities, and potential profiles into three-dimensional graphics from output files.

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PyMOL

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 3 ★★★

An application for visualization of biopolymers. This application can visualize biopolymers by using its original command line and graphical user interface, more than 600 settings for visualization, and more than 20 visualization schemes. This application also supports more than 30 file formats such as PDB and multi-SDF, and can utilize sophisticated visualization methods such as the ray tracing.

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Molden

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 2 ★★☆

An open-source application for pre- and post-processing for quantum chemistry calculation. This application can handle outputs from Gaussian, GAMESS, and MOPAC as well as the result of other applications via the Molden format. It supports many graphical interfaces such as Postscript, XWindows, VRML, and OpenGL, and performs visualization of molecular orbitals and electron density. It also produces animation videos of molecular vibration.

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QTWARE

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 2 ★★☆

An application for evaluation of thermoelectric properties and its visualization. Seebeck coefficients and Peltier coefficients can be calculated from output of the first-principles applications, OpenMX and TranSIESTA. Obtained results as well as electron density and density of states can be visualized.

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C-Tools

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 2 ★★☆

This application can produce input files of various applications for density functional theory (DFT) calculations via user-friendly parameter adjustment using three-dimensional computer graphics (3DCG) and graphical user interfaces (GUI). Input-file conversion between different applications is also possible.

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OpenMX Viewer

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 0 ☆☆☆

OpenMX Viewer (Open source package for Material eXplorer Viewer) is a web-based graphical user interface (GUI) program for visualization and analysis of crystalline and molecular structures.

XYZ, CIF, OpenMX input/output, md(molecular dynamics) files, the Gaussian cube format such as electron density and molecular orbitals can be visualized quickly by drag-and-drop, and it is easy to analyze static/dynamic structural properties conveniently in a web browser. Several basic functionalities such as analysis of Mulliken charges, molecular dynamics, geometry optimization and band structure are included.

 

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Molekel

  • Level of openness 3 ★★★
  • Document quality 2 ★★☆

An open-source application for molecular modeling and visualization. This application supports data formats of Gaussian, GAMESS, ADF, and Molden, and has various options for drawing such as orbital, electron density, solvent accessible surface, van der Waals radii, and so on. It implements high-speed and high-quality rendering technology, and runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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