Computer graphics used for superconductor modeling and aided design

The authors present three dimensional superconductor modeling and aided design using an interactive computer graphics technique. They have developed a database, in which is stored the information of structures and properties of superconductor and their related compounds. They also built a fundamental graphics library which contains all the key structural components. The crystal structures and coordination polyhedron structures, which could be stick-ball, polyhedron, spacefilling multicolor etc., are drawn and manipulated on the computer display unit. Meanwhile, these structures can be assembled on the screen as a tool to explore new compounds. The solid modelling consists of half shading or all shading color graphics. With the ray tracing method, high quality images have been generated by simulating the passage of light through an environment.<>