the elements of the point group of a frame drawn on the upper hemisphere, as the international tables draw them; MATLAB’s referenceFrame.plot

Syntax

plot(cs)

The symmetry elements.

plot(cs, symbolSize=2, mirrorLineWidth=1.5)

Larger symbols, thinner mirrors.

plotSymmetry(crystalFrame('-3m'))

The same by name.

Description

A mirror plane is a great circle, an n-fold rotation axis a filled polygon of n corners (a lens for a twofold), a rotoinversion axis a hollow one around the polygon of its proper part, and the inversion of a Laue group a hollow circle at the centre. The projection follows the keywords of the spherical plots.

Input

fr crystalFrame or specimenFrame

Keywords

keyword default description
symbolSize None a factor on the size of the symbols, by default a third of the chart’s extent
mirrorLineWidth 2.5 the width of the great circles of the mirror planes

Output

sP the spherical plot drawn into

See also

plotHKL, crystalFrame, fundamentalSector

source

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/plotSymmetry_py.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}
}

Other papers describing specific MTEX methods are listed under Publications — please cite the one that best fits your application. The MTEX source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0; the text and figures of this documentation are licensed under CC BY 4.0, which permits reuse — including by automated systems — provided The MTEX Developers and this page are credited.