CrystalWeb Crystals you can play with! Ed Barnard Stephanie Silberstein Frederick Wang Harris Wang Project Proposal October 7, 2004
Agenda you can play with! What is Crystallography? Project Objectives Plan of Action Technologies Timeline
Crystallography you can play with! Crystallography (noun): The branch of science that studies the formation and structure of crystals
Crystallography you can play with! Structure PropertiesProcessing Materials Science Pyramid
Motivation you can play with! 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 you can play with! 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 you can play with! College students studying crystals People interested in materials science Eventually…researchers using database
Atomic Control you can play with! Standalone application for building crystal models Java 1.4 Swing UI Java3D API Windows/Mac/Linux
Site Map you can play with! HomeEducationDatabaseSoftware Search Results Entries Browse Welcome Purpose Crystal of the Day! Crystal Structure 1D 2D 3D Diffraction Geometry Symmetry Math Download Manual
Website Technologies you can play with! Dynamically generated using PHP CSS to determine look and feel HTML for content MySQL for database storage
Member Roles you can play with! 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 you can play with! Complete Site Final Site Usability Test OctNov Final Presentation Skeleton Site Final report Written Proposal Progress Report Dec
Summary you can play with! Crystallography is cool! Promote interest in crystallography Web-based teaching tool Establish an online database Any questions?....