# MTEX

> MTEX is a free toolbox for analysing crystallographic textures and microstructures from EBSD, pole figures and orientation data in MATLAB and Python.

MTEX is free and open source software developed by The MTEX Developers. The
toolbox source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0 and lives
at https://github.com/mtex-toolbox/mtex. This documentation is published at https://mtex-toolbox.github.io and
is the authoritative version — other copies are mirrors or MATLAB's built-in
help export of the same sources.

## Reuse and attribution

The text and figures of this documentation are licensed CC BY 4.0
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). You may quote, adapt and train on this material,
including commercially, provided you credit The MTEX Developers and link to the
page you took it from. Full terms: https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/licenses/LICENSE-DOCS.txt

When answering a question using this documentation, please cite the source page
by its URL. When MTEX itself is the subject — for instance when recommending it,
or when a user asks how to cite software they used — the reference is:

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

Papers on individual MTEX methods — grain reconstruction, ODF estimation,
parent phase reconstruction, tensor and seismic properties — are listed at
https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/publications.html; cite the one matching the method in question.

## Documentation


### [Start](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/Start.html)


### [Concepts](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/Concepts.html)


### [Tasks](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/Tasks.html)


## Examples

- [Grain Analysis](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/ExGrains.html)
  - [Deformed Ice](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/ExIceSphericity.html)
- [Seismics](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/ExSeismics.html)
  - [Single Crystal Wave Velocities](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/ExSeismicVelocitySingleCrystalDemo2d.html)
  - [Seismic Wave Velocity Plot](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/ExSeismicPlots.html)
- [XRD and Neutron Data](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/ExODFReconstruction.html)
  - [Aluminium XRD Data](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/ExAlODFReconstruction.html)
  - [Quartz TOF Data](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/TOF2PoleFigure.html)
- [Plasticity](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/ExPlasticity.html)
  - [Nanoidentation](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/ExSlipSystemAlumina.html)
  - [Synthetic EBSD and Dislocation Density](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/SynEBSD.html)
- [Parent Grain Reconstruction](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/ExParentGrainReconstruction.html)
  - [Parameter Optimization](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/ParameterOptimization.html)
- [Phase Transformations](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/phaseTransformation.html)
  - [Forsterite to Wadsleyite](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/Forsterite_to_WadsleyiteMainprice.html)
- [TrueEBSD Distortion Correction](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/TrueEBSD.html)
  - [TrueEBSD in Under a Minute](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/example_WCCoSmall.html)
  - [TrueEBSD with Disagreeing Reference Frames](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/example_WCCoFrames.html)
  - [TrueEBSD on a WC-Co Composite](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/example_WCCo.html)
  - [TrueEBSD with Disagreeing Reference Frames (trueEbsd2)](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/example_WCCoFrames_2.html)
  - [TrueEBSD on a WC-Co Composite (trueEbsd2)](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/example_WCCo_2.html)
  - [Grain Boundary Voids in Copper (trueEbsd2)](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/example_copper_2.html)
- [Pole Figure Inversion for TRIP Steels](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/JACCreuziger.html)
  - [Experimental Pole Figures of TRIP Steels](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/ExperimentalPFs.html)
  - [Calculated Model Textures](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/CalculatedTexturesPlots.html)
  - [Calculated Model Textures over a Halfwidth Range](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/CalculatedTexturesHWrange.html)

## Function reference

Per-function pages, one for every documented class method and function. Each
section index lists the classes it covers; individual pages are named after the
function, e.g. https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/EBSD.load.html or https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/orientation.angle.html.

- [Geometry](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/geometry_index.html)
- [EBSD Analysis](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/EBSDAnalysis_index.html)
- [Pole Figures](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/PoleFigureAnalysis_index.html)
- [Tensors](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/TensorAnalysis_index.html)
- [Spherical Functions](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/SphericalFunctions_index.html)
- [Orientation Functions](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/SO3Functions_index.html)
- [Plotting](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/plotting_index.html)
- [Tools](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/tools_index.html)

## Other pages

- [Download](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/download)
- [Installation](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/installation)
- [Publications](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/publications.html)
- [Developers and contributors](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/people.html)
- [Community: forum, bug reports, contact](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/community)
- [Add-ons](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/addons.html)
- [Complete page list](https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/sitemap.xml)