crystalFrame.conventionChar edit page

the plotting convention expressed in crystal directions, e.g. '⊙c*→a'

Overrides the generic referenceFrame version, which writes the screen layout in the frame's axes names ('c↑→a'). That form does not fit a crystal: the crystal axes are in general not orthogonal, so the axis pointing north usually is none of them and the generic version falls back to the Cartesian form. Naming the axis out of the screen and the one to the east instead always has an answer, and it is how a crystallographer states the setting anyway.

Both the direct and the reciprocal axes are candidates, so an X||a* setting reads '⊙c*→a' rather than falling back.

Syntax

c = conventionChar(cF)      % the frame's own convention
c = conventionChar(cF,pC)   % a resolved convention, in crystal axes

Input

cF crystalFrame
pC plottingConvention

Output

c char

See also

referenceFrame.conventionChar plottingConvention

Citing this page. This page is part of the documentation of MTEX, a free and open source MATLAB toolbox for analyzing and modeling crystallographic textures. It was written by The MTEX Developers and is published at https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/crystalFrame.conventionChar.html. If you use MTEX, or reuse text or figures from this page, in your research, please cite

F. Bachmann, R. Hielscher, H. Schaeben: Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox, Solid State Phenomena 160 (2010), 63-68. 10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63

BibTeX 
@article{bachmann2010mtex,
  author  = {F. Bachmann and R. Hielscher and H. Schaeben},
  title   = {Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox},
  journal = {Solid State Phenomena},
  volume  = {160},
  pages   = {63-68},
  year    = {2010},
  doi     = {10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63}
}

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