Coulomb Crystal Plotter:

This program is designed for the plotting of Coulomb crystals for rendering in Blender, animating in PowerPoint and 3D printing, example files can be found in the 'example_inputs' folder.

Citing this program:

If using this program in academic publications please consider citing us so that others can learn of my research.

@misc{CoulombPlotter,
  author = {Holloway, F},
  title = {CoulombPlotter},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/fraseyboo/ion_plotter/master}}
}

Example Plots:

Some of the possible plots you can make with this program:

Colors can be dynamically changed:

The surface roughness allows for different rendering textures:

Scalar values can be used to define the colormap & radii