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    Graduate What is the true nature of an atom and how can we visualize it?

    hi cmcraes, thanks for your ideas ! however, the point of my exercise would be to avoid any 'artificial colouring' like colouring the quarks. I would like to portray a single atom the way we would see it if our eyes could see the sub-nanometer frequency domain. So I'll go with calculating the...
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    Graduate What is the true nature of an atom and how can we visualize it?

    allright, I won't be bothering with that, then : ) For now, I think I know what to do. Thanks a bunch !
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    Graduate What is the true nature of an atom and how can we visualize it?

    Bill_K, I am aware of RTM images (I once saw a movie of a layer of gold atoms moving about in a lecture, but I can't recall either the lecture, nor can I find the footage online. If anyone has a link that'd be great) but what I am after is an interactive rendering of what the atom would look...
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    Graduate What is the true nature of an atom and how can we visualize it?

    Hi, I am a graphics programmer / animator and would like to play around and try to visualize an atom. I think I can do better than the run of the mill spheres or blobs as they are normally portrayed. I have a decent physics background, I know QED by Richard Feynman by heart, and I have...