1. CrystalWeb Crystals you can play with! Ed Barnard Stephanie Silberstein Frederick Wang Harris Wang crystalweb@mit.edu Project Proposal October 7, 2004

2. Agenda crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals you can play with! What is Crystallography? Project Objectives Plan of Action Technologies Timeline

3. Crystallography crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals you can play with! Crystallography (noun): The branch of science that studies the formation and structure of crystals

4. Crystallography crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals you can play with! Structure PropertiesProcessing Materials Science Pyramid

5. Motivation crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals 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

6. Objectives crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals 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

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

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

9. Site Map crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals 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

10. Website Technologies crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals you can play with! Dynamically generated using PHP CSS to determine look and feel HTML for content MySQL for database storage

11. Member Roles crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals 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

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

13. Summary crystalweb@mit.eduCrystals you can play with! Crystallography is cool! Promote interest in crystallography Web-based teaching tool Establish an online database Any questions?....