Hi Mineralogists: Do any of you have experience building crystal structures in Blender (virtual reality rendering software)? I’d like to use .cif files from mindat.org<http://mindat.org> and import them into Blender to make immersive 3D virtual reality crystalline structures (public domain of course), but our team is having trouble handling the file conversions. Any input is appreciated and if anyone has already been working on this I’d be happy to talk about a collaboration. Cheers, Codi ________________________________ Codi Lazar Associate Professor Dept. of Geological Sciences California State University, San Bernardino clazar@csusb.edu<mailto:clazar@csusb.edu>

I printed a bunch of crystal models for take home labs last year. Found this site that already had most of the models. You should be able to import them into Blender and save them in the format you need. https://crystalmodels3d.wordpress.com/home/ Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're looking for. On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 6:24 AM Codi Lazar via MSA-talk < msa-talk@minlists.org> wrote: > Hi Mineralogists: > > Do any of you have experience building crystal structures in Blender > (virtual reality rendering software)? I’d like to use .cif files from > mindat.org and import them into Blender to make immersive 3D virtual > reality crystalline structures (public domain of course), but our team is > having trouble handling the file conversions. Any input is appreciated and > if anyone has already been working on this I’d be happy to talk about a > collaboration. > > Cheers, > Codi > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > Codi Lazar > Associate Professor > Dept. of Geological Sciences > California State University, San Bernardino > clazar@csusb.edu > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MSA-talk mailing list -- msa-talk@minlists.org > To unsubscribe send an email to msa-talk-leave@minlists.org > -- Ben Andersen Instructional Support Technician Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences College of Science and Mathematics California State University, Fresno Direct: 559.278.2975 <(559)%20278-2975>

Hi Codi, I don’t know anything about Blender, but I made a MATLAB class that can import CIF files and do some crystallographic calculations, including converting fractional coordinates into Cartesian coordinates. Barry > On Nov 18, 2021, at 10:57 PM, Codi Lazar via MSA-talk <msa-talk@minlists.org> wrote: > > Hi Mineralogists: > > Do any of you have experience building crystal structures in Blender (virtual reality rendering software)? I’d like to use .cif files from mindat.org <http://mindat.org/> and import them into Blender to make immersive 3D virtual reality crystalline structures (public domain of course), but our team is having trouble handling the file conversions. Any input is appreciated and if anyone has already been working on this I’d be happy to talk about a collaboration. > > Cheers, > Codi > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > Codi Lazar > Associate Professor > Dept. of Geological Sciences > California State University, San Bernardino > clazar@csusb.edu <mailto:clazar@csusb.edu> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MSA-talk mailing list -- msa-talk@minlists.org > To unsubscribe send an email to msa-talk-leave@minlists.org