https://github.com/sgsaenger/vipster

Visualization and editing of periodic molecular structure files.
https://github.com/sgsaenger/vipster

atom cpmd cpp17 emscripten gui lammps molecule pwscf python quantum-espresso visualization xyz

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Visualization and editing of periodic molecular structure files.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sgsaenger/vipster
• Owner: sgsaenger
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2014-07-15T13:05:58.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-03-02T13:38:33.000Z (9 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-03T01:08:30.761Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: atom, cpmd, cpp17, emscripten, gui, lammps, molecule, pwscf, python, quantum-espresso, visualization, xyz
• Language: C++
• Homepage: https://sgsaenger.github.io/vipster
• Size: 11.9 MB
• Stars: 26
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 8
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Fast and easy to use graphical editor for periodic atomistic simulations.

More information: [Homepage](https://sgsaenger.github.io/vipster),

[Downloads](https://github.com/sgsaenger/vipster/releases),

[Installation instructions](INSTALL.md)

[Try the interactive browser version (not feature complete)!](https://sgsaenger.github.io/vipster/emscripten/index.html)

![Example screenshot](website/content/images/screenshot.png)

  

    

      

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    C++17 based backbone: Powerful container-classes and I/O

  

  

    

      

    

    

      

    

    

      

    

  

  

    Fast and native GUI with OGL3.3 based rendering

    Portable browser-based GUI, shared render-code

    Scripting interface for batch-processing

  

## Supported file types

| Format          | Reading  | Writing  |

|-----------------|----------|----------|

| xyz (augmented) | ✔ | ✔ |

| PWScf input     | ✔ | ✔ |

| PWScf output    | ✔ |          |

| LAMMPS data     | ✔ | ✔ |

| LAMMPS dump     | ✔ |          |

| CPMD input      | ✔ | ✔ |

| Gaussian cube   | ✔ |          |

| XCrysden        | ✔ |          |

| ORCA input      | ✔ | ✔ |

| VASP Poscar     | ✔ | ✔ |

## Dependencies

Vipster uses the following awesome software:

- [JSON for Modern C++](https://github.com/nlohmann/json)

- [CLI11](https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11)

- [tinyexpr](https://github.com/codeplea/tinyexpr)

- [CMake](https://cmake.org)

- [{fmt}](https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt)

- [Qt6](https://www.qt.io) (desktop application)

- [emscripten](http://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site) (web interface)

- [pybind11](https://github.com/pybind/pybind11) (script interface)

- [Catch2](https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2) (testing)

- [LAMMPS](https://lammps.sandia.gov) (interactive forcefield calculations)