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[Masayoshi Mikami <mmikami@yk.rim.or.jp>]

Hello,

XCrySDen (http://www.xcrysden.org/), may be helpful for this purpose. 
This can be downloaded freely, but you might want to read the license:
   http://www.xcrysden.org/License.html
Then, kindly visit the registration page:
   http://www.xcrysden.org/Register.html

An example (snapshot) of vector visualization can be found:
   http://www.xcrysden.org/doc/intro.html 
The documentation for the file format is available:
   http://www.xcrysden.org/doc/XSF.html
The section "Specification of Forces" may also be useful 
for the visualization of phonon eigenvectors.
The animation feature might also be usefull; kindly see the section 
"Specification of Animated XSF format" in the documentation.
(I have not tried this animation feature for this purpose...)

Before the XCrySDen 0.9.x, I had used another code (Plotmtv) 
just to take a look at eigenvectors... The note can be found: 
   ~ABINIT/Infos/Miscellaneous/PLOTMTV_Phonons
An example made with the code can be found :
   ~ABINIT/Infos/Images/mode.png
Obviously, the latest XCrySDen appears better. 

Hope this helps,
Masayoshi

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Subject: [abinit-forum] eigenvector display
From: Dennis.Klug@nrc.ca
To: forum@abinit.org
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 22:52:01 +0200
Reply-To: forum@abinit.org

Dear Colleagues,

    I believe this question may have been raised before. Is there a
freeware program for the display and animation of vibrational eigenvectors
for solid state systems?

Thanks very much,

 D.D. Klug
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