About Beautiful Atoms

Who uses Beautiful Atoms?

Beautiful Atoms is suitable for almost any sort of atomic structures production for both academic and education.

Key Features

  • Model: space-filling, ball-stick, polyhedral, cavity and so on.

  • Support file: cif, xyz, cube, pdb, json, VASP-out and so on.

  • Volumetric data (Isosurface), molecular surface.

  • Ribbon diagram for protein.

  • Site occupancy.

  • Support periodic boundary conditions.

  • Support structure from ASE and Pymatgen.

  • Support fetch structures from MaterialProject, Pubchem and RSCB.

  • Animation.

  • GUI

  • Flexible: Python script, run interactively or in background.

  • High quality rendering: 3D models

  • Free, Open Source: Easy to download and install.

  • Cross-platform: (Linux, Windows, macOS)