Student Video Crystallography, a Visualisation Tool for CS, BCC and FCC Bravais Lattice Structures.
ALEXIS GERVAIX: Hello everyone, and welcome to this little video presenting you my project on Mathematica. My name is Alex. And I'm currently studying material science in EPFL in Switzerland. And we had this personal challenge to do something you wanted with Mathematica. So I took an interest into crystallography, because this is a quite essential field of material science. Well, actually, it was on the request of my girlfriend, who has quite trouble to see things in 3D that I did this. And my idea was to create a tool that could be used by anyone that doesn't especially know about Mathematica, and that, without coding anything, he could create a couple of structures, have a look at the-- have an interactive part with it, and choose the atom, et cetera, and visualize more easily these structures. So let's have a look first at a bit of theory, and first with the Bravais lattice. So Bravais lattice is one of the fundamentals of crystallography. It defines the di...