McXtrace
Monte Carlo Xray Tracing. Allows simulation of X-ray beam lines, as well as sample simulations in so-called virtual experiments.
| Website | http://www.mcxtrace.org/ |
| Licenses | GNU General Public License 2.0 |
| Categories | Instrument Simulation Sample simulation Visualization Optics simulation Powder Diffraction Single Crystal Diffraction |
| Software Requirements | A C compiler. User Interfaces require e.g. any of Perl/Tk/PGPLOT, Python/Qt, Matlab, Gnuplot, ... |
| Hardware Requirements | - | Platforms | Mac OS Linux Windows |
| Languages | C MATLAB Perl Python |
| Input Formats | Text |
| Output Formats | m (MATLAB) R Text VRML VTK X3D |
| Contact email | mcxtrace-users@mcxtrace.org |
| How-to | |
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Download and Install: http://www.mcxtrace.org/installation/ Documentation: http://www.mcxtrace.org/documentation/ |
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| Documentation / Tutorials | |
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Tutorial: http://www.mcxtrace.org/documentation/tutorial/ |
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| References | |
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Erik Bergbäck Knudsen, Andrea Prodi, Jana Baltser, Maria Thomsen, P Kjær Willendrup, M Sanchez del Rio, Claudio Ferrero, Emmanuel Farhi, Kristoffer Haldrup, Anette Vickery, et al. Mcxtrace: a monte carlo software package for simulating x-ray optics, beamlines and experiments. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 46(3):679-696, 2013. Erik Bergbäck Knudsen, A Prodi, Peter Kjær Willendrup, Kim Lefmann, J Baltser, C Gundlach, M Sanchez del Rio, C Ferrero, and Robert Feidenhans'l. McXtrace: A modern ray-tracing package for X-ray instrumentation. In Proceedings of SPIE, volume 8141, page 81410G, 2011. |
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| Instruments | This software is not associated to any instruments. |
