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Atomic Orbitals

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Atomic Orbitals

These are 3D intensity plots of atomic orbitals. Since this is showing paritaly transparent intensity plots of the orbitals some of the features might be hard to make out. Try adjusting the intensity with the scroll wheel and selecting slice from the controls to get a clearer view. Shift + scroll wheel will zoom in and out.

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Last reply was November 29, 2017
  1. Wendy Langer
    View April 19, 2011

    Nice Work!

  2. Marcelo Oliveira
    View May 5, 2011

    Very cool, great work Andy!

  3. Batier Christophe
    View May 6, 2011

    Thank you for sharing this excellent work!

  4. David Prindle
    View October 18, 2011

    WebGL won’t initialize on my Mac running Chrome Beta

  5. Andy
    View October 21, 2011

    I have all sorts of problems with chrome on my windows laptop. It only loads when it is the only tab. Firefox and canary load it just fine, so that might work with you. WebGL still isn’t fully baked just yet.

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  7. enrico penzo
    View October 12, 2012

    I was thinking to start doing this but you were faster :)

  8. Andy Brummer
    View October 14, 2012

    Thanks, This is one of the first projects I took on. I’d love to get some artistic input on how to make the images really stand out. Right now it’s just a basic rendering. I’d love for it to be part of a bigger project like an interactive chemistry or physics text. Sitting here, it’s just a demo.

  9. C Perkins
    View November 29, 2017

    Could you please comment on the basis, rotating or standing? Also, starting with the n=2, p = 1, m_l=±1 (e.g. 2,1,1) the orbitals are not exactly symmetric with (2,1,0). In almost every other representation online, the orbitals for higher m_l (given a fixed n and p value) are essentially symmetric with the other m_l values, only rotated along a different axis. In your app, the various m_l orbitals in the standing basis are indeed similar but still show marked unique features and are not simply rotated copies of the other m_l values. Could you please comment? Perhaps others are using a simplification of the wave functions (spherical harmonics) for faster/easier calculations? (I already realize that any of these pictures are not a full representation of the complete space AND that for every picture of an orbital as a solid one must choose some surface to represent and so it’s not likely that all pictures will be identical. Even considering that, the orbitals of your app are still obviously different than other renditions.)

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