The Nuclear Fruitbowl is the moniker for the wide variety of different shapes of nucleii that exist in our universe, whilst beta paremeters give an idea of deformation to a trained physicist it can be hard to convey their meaning to the general public. If you've ever wondered what a 'Pear Shaped' nucleus really means then this program may be useful to you. This program has been developed to allow physicists to generate a variety of nuclear shapes for raster visualisation in Blender and producing models for 3D printing to help communicate nuclear structure to a wider audience.
If using this program (and any figures generated with it) in academic publications/presentations please consider citing us so that others can learn of our research.
@misc{NuclearFruitbowl,
author = {Holloway, F and Cubiss, J},
title = {Nuclear Fruitbowl: A Nuclear Shape Generator},
year = {2023},
publisher = {GitHub},
journal = {GitHub repository},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/fraseyboo/nuclear_generator/tree/master}}
}
We would like to add support for the following in the near future:
- Potential energy surface maps in (
$\beta$ ,$\gamma$ ). - Animation support using the gltf framework for PowerPoint Presentations
Some of the possible plots you can make with this program and a little creativity:
The shapes generated from this program couple well with the 3D nuclide chart from https://people.physics.anu.edu.au/~ecs103/chart/
Gridlines can be enabled to produce high-resolution raster images
Normals are generated allowing for physically-based rendering, cubemaps are supported to do complex reflections
Higher order harmonics are also supported:
Harmonics can be used for coloring or as displacement:
Direct exporting to Blender allows for more advanced rendering:
