Educational Diagrams: Crystallography

The following diagrams were all drawn for use in the Introductory Crystallography Lectures in the Crystallography Workshop held annually by the Structural Chemistry Group at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. To get the original WPG files from the Structural Chemistry ftp site, click here. To get a 640x480 gif version of the diagram, simply click on the required mini-graphic.

Example Diagrams from Crystallography Workshop
Clicking on an image gives an enlarged GIF
Clicking on a lable gives the original WPG file

Two dimensional hexagonal close packing	Three dimensional hexagonal close packing	Three dimensional cubic close packing
Example miller indices	Centring in orthorhombic unit cells	The inversion centre
Octahdral and Tetrahedral sites	Point symmetry of benzene	Point symmetry of thiourea
Point symmetry of camphor	One dimensional space symmetry	Braggs law
Reciprocal Space.