Welcome to Beautiful Atoms 2.2.0’s documentation!

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Beautiful Atoms is a Python package for creating, editing and rendering atoms and molecules structures using Blender. A Python interface that allows for automating workflows.

Caution

The latest version only supports Blender version >= 3.4.

Note

Need help? Please can ask questions at: https://groups.google.com/g/beautiful-atoms

Note

View and edit structure in Jupyter Notebook? You can use weas-widget

Getting Started

Sections

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User interface

An introduction to Blender’s window system, Batoms’s panels and tools.

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Modeling

Modeling tools: molecules, crystals, surfaces and nanoparticles.

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Animation

Overview of the animation.

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Rendering

Rendering

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Python

Python interface and API.

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Tutorials

Tutorials

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Advanced topics

Advanced topics

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Gallery

Gallery images.