1. CrystalWeb Crystals you can play with! Final Report December 7, 2004 Ed Barnard Stephanie Silberstein Frederick Wang Harris Wang crystalweb@mit.edu

2. Crystals you can play with! Introduction

3. crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals you can play with! Motivation 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

4. crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals you can play with! Audience College students studying crystals People interested in materials science Eventually…researchers using database

5. crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals you can play with! Introduction

6. crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals you can play with! Introduction

7. crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals you can play with! Introduction

8. crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals you can play with! Usability Test

9. crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals you can play with! Standalone application for building crystal models Java 1.4 Swing UI Java3D API Windows/Mac/Linux AtomicControl

10. crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals you can play with! Website Technologies HTML dynamically generated using PHP CSS to determine look and feel Browser compatibility MySQL for database storage Image storage and retrieval

11. crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals you can play with! Member Roles 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

12. crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals you can play with! Project Timeline Complete Site Final Site Usability Test OctNov 8 15 224 9 23 9 Skeleton Site Final report Written Proposal Progress Report Dec

13. crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals you can play with! Future Directions AtomicControl project will be Ed’s senior thesis Use in classrooms: 3.012, 3.014, and 3.091 Addition to Athena and OCW

14. crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals you can play with! Questions? Thank you for your attention!