Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-03-20 Thread pstephens
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RE: Re: Embedded plots, was Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-03-07 Thread Alan Hewat
Worlton, Thomas G. said: > Do you have an electronic copy of lazy-pulverix that I could download? Tom, I will find the source for you tomorrow, but you can download The ICSD installation that contains Lazy PulverIx executables for various platforms from http://icsd.ill.fr/icsd/install/ Lazy P. st

RE: Re: Embedded plots, was Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-03-07 Thread Worlton, Thomas G.
Laboratory http://www.pns.anl.gov/computing/ -Original Message- From: Alan Hewat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 7:38 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Embedded plots, was Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space At 11:54 22/02/2007, Alan Hewat wrote: >I would like to

Re: Embedded plots, was Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-26 Thread Alan Hewat
At 11:54 22/02/2007, Alan Hewat wrote: >I would like to see a profile plotting package in Java or some other really >portable language that would read in CIF files and plot calculated-observed >patterns like Jmol now plots structures. At 21:40 22/02/2007, Luca Lutterotti wrote: >But with a littl

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-25 Thread Jacco van de Streek
--- Olga Smirnova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isnt it much more natural to publish only atomic > coordinates in a direct space without inversion ? Publishing only the end result hides any errors that might have been made during the analysis: the reader of the paper should at least be able to see

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-25 Thread Olga Smirnova
Dear all, Isnt it much more natural to publish only atomic coordinates in a direct space without inversion ? Therefore I propose, that publishing data in other units should be avoided. Sounds very tough. Best regards, -- Olga Smirnova Laboratoire de Cristallographie 24, quai Ernest-Ansermet C

Re: Embedded plots, was Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-22 Thread Luca Lutterotti
On Feb 22, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Jonathan Wright wrote: From http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/cif/faq/ # What is DDL3? DDL version 3 is the name given to some work in progress by Syd Hall and his colleagues at the University of Western Australia. It is intended to build on the greater consistenc

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space: plotting CIFs

2007-02-22 Thread Alan Hewat
At 16:44 22/02/2007, Brian H. Toby wrote: >Alan, perhaps you might be able to figure out how to configure firefox to >launch pdCIFplot when it encounters a .CIF file on various platforms? Thanks Brian. I imagined that would be how it worked, since even if it could be done, embedding (the same)

RE: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space: plotting CIFs

2007-02-22 Thread Von Dreele, Robert B.
I should add about cif is that there exists a number fundamental incompatibilities between pdCIF & mmCIF. One main issue, as I understand it, is that pdCIF naturally can describe multiple data sets (powder patterns) used in a single structure analysis - mmCIF seems to forbid this. This will cause t

Embedded plots, was Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-22 Thread Jonathan Wright
From http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/cif/faq/ # What is DDL3? DDL version 3 is the name given to some work in progress by Syd Hall and his colleagues at the University of Western Australia. It is intended to build on the greater consistency and data typing abilities of DDL2 without tying the d

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-22 Thread Klaus-Dieter Liss
Dear Colleagues, I am happy to see, that the presentation of diffraction data is not just something neglected but that there a quite a lot of people with diferent thoughts and reasons and that is it a hot topic to find some ways to more modern and standard presentation. Nothing is really new,

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-22 Thread Alan Hewat
>All of these problems of "what to plot" would go away if we all submitted >powderCIF files for our refinements. The "plot" could then be an interactive >application embedded in the electronic document and readers could select the >units they want. Now this sounds interesting. Certainly the ra

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-22 Thread Jon Wright
Jacco, I/sigma_I is a good idea in principle. It just looks ugly if you get the sigmas right for certain instruments - there are meaningless steps all over the place. All of these problems of "what to plot" would go away if we all submitted powderCIF files for our refinements. The "plot" cou

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-22 Thread Radovan Cerny
Jacco van de Streek a écrit : Example 1. Background subtraction. Measured: Iobs = 100 counts, so ESD = SQRT(100) = 10. The background at that point is determined to be, say, 102. The nett intensity at that point is then 100 - 102 = -2. However, the ESD of the point does not change as a result of

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-22 Thread Alan Hewat
Please see the following message from Apurva Mehta. If like him you receive messages but cannot post to the Rietveld list, it is not because you are being punished, but because your current "From" email address does not correspond exactly to your registered email address. In that case simply re-

RE: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Joerg Bergmann
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RE: Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Jacco van de Streek
--- "Von Dreele, Robert B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I looked at Luca's little "show" & was > sufficiently interested > that GSAS will now plot sqrt(I) style plots. There > is one "problem" - > the value of "I" can be negative particularly after > a background > subtraction. These mus

RE: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread ling yang
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:37 PM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space Alan, I do not want to take the decision out of the author, but the contrary. When programs just only plot in one scale, than the author is forced to use that one. Can I plot in square root or

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Luca Lutterotti
quate in most cases but for analysis the conversion should be done properly; a point missed by many. cheers alan -Original Message- From: Luca Lutterotti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 February 2007 6:59 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

RE: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread AlanCoelho
s the conversion should be done properly; a point missed by many. cheers alan -Original Message- From: Luca Lutterotti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 February 2007 6:59 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space Alan, if it is trivial to plot in the s

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Luca Lutterotti
4814 -Original Message- From: Luca Lutterotti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:59 PM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space Alan, if it is trivial to plot in the square root I presume it is already available in Topas as well GSAS and

RE: Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Von Dreele, Robert B.
-- From: Luca Lutterotti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:59 PM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space Alan, if it is trivial to plot in the square root I presume it is already available in Topas as well GSAS and Fullprof just to mention few

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Luca Lutterotti
owder Diffraction In Q-Space It's a principle of software design not to presume any kind of equidistant data. Unfortunately, file formats for non-equidistant data are seldom. So I could not implement any in BGMN, until now. But, in principle, there is no restriction. Regards Joerg Bergmann

RE: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Leopoldo Suescun
Luca Lutterotti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 11:30 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space As we talk about plotting in Q-space (just for information in Maud is available from few months thanks to Klaus-Dieter advocating for it), I would adv

RE: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread AlanCoelho
in regards to takeing the fourier transform of a powder pattern. alan -Original Message- From: Joerg Bergmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 February 2007 4:30 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space It's a principle of software design n

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Joerg Bergmann
It's a principle of software design not to presume any kind of equidistant data. Unfortunately, file formats for non-equidistant data are seldom. So I could not implement any in BGMN, until now. But, in principle, there is no restriction. Regards Joerg Bergmann AlanCoelho wrote: Representing

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Luca Lutterotti
As we talk about plotting in Q-space (just for information in Maud is available from few months thanks to Klaus-Dieter advocating for it), I would advocate another "plot option" that I would rather see as a default way of plotting. Looking at the other axis (the intensity) I am asking why w

RE: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread AlanCoelho
al data steps so be aware of data conversion. My guess is that most conversion programs do the wrong thing. alan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Billinge Sent: Thursday, 22 February 2007 2:52 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: P

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Simon Billinge
roughly speaking, historically, Q=2pi/d is used by physicists and S=1/d used by crystallographers and these communities define their reciprocal lattices and Fourier transforms accordingly. With the 2pi in there, Q is the momentum transfer. Without it in there the Laue Equations are much cleaner.

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Brian H. Toby
I have always preferred to see data plotted in units of Q (though Q^2 or Q^3 makes sense from a perspective of spreading peaks.) Two-theta made sense only when everyone used CuK alpha (which was never true). Personally, I would be glad to never see another plot of intensity vs. d-space. O

RE: RE: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Von Dreele, Robert B.
R.B. Von Dreele IPNS Division Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL 60439-4814 -Original Message- From: Alan Hewat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:45 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: RE: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space >Depends on the lattice? Cubic pat

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Ray Osborn
On 2007/02/21 9:06, "Jonathan Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2pi/d just needs a better name than Q? I guess, to some extent, this debate depends on whether you are only interested in talking to other powder diffraction specialists. As a non-specialist, I would suggest that Q is a more wide

RE: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread AlanCoelho
Representing data in Q space is fine for viewing etc... but the conversion from 2Th to Q needs a little thought. If unequal Q steps is not a problem then a straight conversion is ok. However if someone is going to use that Q data for further analysis then it is important to use the original data

RE: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Alan Hewat
>Depends on the lattice? Cubic patterns look great in old "Q": >eg: "Tables of Q as a Function of 2theta" Acta Cryst 12, 421, (1959) >... where Q was 10^4/d^2. Yes, it does "en principe" depend on the lattice of course :-) but 10^4/d^2 still provides a better "constant peak density scale" than a

RE: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Jonathan Wright
Klaus-Dieter was only proposing Q-scale plots for publishing results, Why this 2pi factor? Why not 1/d or sin(theta)/lambda. During a very brief look at SAXS it seemed at least a few authors disagree about the units, with "s" also appearing sometimes. It was confusing and there was a lot of s

RE: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Alan Hewat
>However, the profile shape functions are not simple functions of Q but are >simple (Gaussian & Lorentzian) functions of 2-theta. Case closed. OK, refinement is anyway done with different scales corresponding to the actual data collection - constant steps of 2theta or TOF. But Klaus-Dieter was

RE: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Joerg Bergmann
One should handle each part of the pattern in it's natural scale: -Pattern representation (purely, without instrumental broadening) in Q -Geometric part of the instrumental function in an angular scale (e.g. radian) -Wavelength part of the instrumental function in the nm or k-scale (1/nm) for si

RE: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Von Dreele, Robert B.
However, the profile shape functions are not simple functions of Q but are simple (Gaussian & Lorentzian) functions of 2-theta. Case closed. From: Klaus-Dieter Liss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 2/21/2007 4:03 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Powder Diffra

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Joerg Bergmann
Dear Klaus-Dieter Liss, just a comment: From the beginning, I have used Q-scale internally in my programs. Including e.g. BGMN. Plus, for complete compatibility to other sciences, I use 1/nm instead of 1/Angstroem as unit of Q. So, for example the BGMN *.par files contain data in this scale/unit.

Re: Powder Diffraction In Q-Space

2007-02-21 Thread Holger Kohlmann
Klaus-Dieter, I agree that anything scaling with sin(theta) / lambda is to be preferred over 2theta, TOF or d spacing. This is especially handy when comparing data from different sources, which we often do with lab X-ray, synchrotron and neutron data. Which factor k in the representation