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On Thursday 05 February 2004 14:40, Miguel Howard wrote:
> > And support for P1 is a very good start...
> >
> > Atoms in other cells are only related by translation along a or b or c
> > or of  any combination of these unit cell axes.
>
> So, once they are in P1 then all you have to do is translate the origin to
> the other vertices?

Yes.

> >> (I think that Peter previously
> >> said that there were 243(?) types of transformations.) In any case,
> >> for a given unitcell we should be able to construct transform matrices
> >> to generate the siblings.
> >
> > I don't think it is that difficult either... but let's skip space groups
> > for  now...
> >
> >> Q: Egon, can you do the calculations (or explain how to do the
> >> calculations) to transform the atoms from the unit cell into the
> >> neighboring cells?
> >
> > Let me know where I need to put the code...
>
> There may not be a need for you to give me any more code.
>
> Are you saying that all I have to do is translate the origin to the other
> 7 vertices of the unit cell:
>   a, b, a+b, c, a+c, b+c, a+b+c

Yes. Jmol b6 had unit cell 0,0,0 for the original one... and one could set 
things like [-1,-1,-1]-[1,1,1] for a 3x3x3 crystal box...

Egon

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