ENH: Vectors with phase contribution

ajjackson / ascii-phonons

Blender extensions for illustrations of phonons

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ENH: Vectors with phase contribution #21

Closed ajjackson closed 8 years ago

ajjackson commented 8 years ago

At the moment only the real part of the displacement vector is used when displaying arrows. This is useful in combination with animated atoms as it helps show how the phase difference leads to different positions on the same trajectory. However, for static images it would be useful to incorporate this information into the arrows.

This could be enabled automatically for single-frame images
The arrow-head tracks the position of displaced atoms corresponding to the current frame

ajjackson commented 8 years ago

It looks like phase is actually already calculated correctly; not sure why I thought it wasn't. Closing for now; currently we do NOT have the behaviour suggested above for animated systems. This was lower-priority, however.