Today, let’s have some fun playing with perspective rendering in Python! My graphics package of choice is VPython:
sudo apt-get install python-visual
Suppose we want to represent a simple cubic lattice: Using the visual
package, we can create a collection of spheres at positions \((i,j,k)\) with \(i,j,k = -L…L\).
from visual import sphere
L = 5
R = 0.3
for i in range(-L,L+1):
for j in range(-L,L+1):
for k in range(-L,L+1):
sphere(pos=[i,j,k],radius=R)
Resulting in this beautiful rendering:
But what if we want to change the color? Simply alter the last line:
sphere(pos=[i,j,k],radius=R).color = color.blue
Less atoms? Alter the value of L.
L = 1 |
Same number of atoms with smaller radii? Alter the value of R.
R = 0.2 |