Vipster is a powerful and versatile tool for pre- and post-processing of periodic chemical structures.

It's core is a library that provides powerful access to atomistic data, designed with periodic simulations in mind.

Three interfaces are available:

QtVipster is a powerful editor for Linux, OSX and Windows, with various editing capabilities and a powerful cli-interface

WebVipster is an emscripten-based visualisation tool that works in every WebGL2/WebASM capable browser

PyVipster is a python interface for advanced scripting needs

These formats can be parsed:

  • standard xyz
  • PWScf input/output
  • LAMMPS data/custom-dump
  • Empire-xyz (planned)
  • Gaussian cube files (planned)
  • AIMALL output (planned)
  • CPMD input (planned)
  • Mol2 (planned)
  • (A)XSF (planned)
  • Turbomole (planned)

These formats can be written:

  • xyz
  • PWScf input
  • Empire-xyz (planned)
  • LAMMPS data (planned)
  • CPMD input (planned)