Beautiful Atoms

Batoms is a Python package for editing and rendering atoms and molecules objects using blender. A Python interface that allows for automating workflows.

Features:

• Model: space-filling, ball-stick, polyhedral, cavity and so on.
• Supported File type: cif, xyz, cube, pdb, json, VASP-out and so on.
• Supported structure: ASE and Pymatgen
• Volumetric data (Isosurface)
• Ribbon diagram for protein
• Site occupancy
• Animation
• GUI
• Support periodic boundary conditions
• Support fetch structures from MaterialProject, Pubchem and RSCB
• 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)

Beautiful Atoms 2.0

Beautiful Atoms 2.0.0 planned release schedule.

Phase	Description	Start Date	Branch
Bcon1	New features and changes	Jan 4, 2022	main
Bcon2	Improve and stabilize	Feb 7, 2022	main
Bcon3	Bug fixing only	Feb 28, 2022	release/2.0.0
Bcon4	Prepare release	Mar 17, 2022	release/2.0.0
Bcon5	Release	Mar 27, 2022	release/2.0.0

Beautiful Atoms 2.1.0 planned release schedule.

Phase	Description	Start Date	Branch
Bcon1	New features and changes	Feb 28, 2022	develop
Bcon2	Improve and stabilize	Apr 1 , 2022	develop
Bcon3	Bug fixing only	Apr 20, 2022	release/2.1.0
Bcon4	Prepare release	May 17, 2022	release/2.1.0
Bcon5	Release	May 27, 2022	release/2.1.0

Author

• Xing Wang [email protected]

Dependencies

• Blender
• Python
• ASE
• numpy
• scipy
• Scikit-image

How to use

Please vist: https://beautiful-atoms.readthedocs.io/en/latest/