Latest news: improved search/select, history, svg support, plastic crystal modes - read about it here
 

News

Smorf has changed! The 3D crystals on the top of this page, and here, are still there, but with a few more options.
Creative Commons License

With this new button on the toolbar you can view or download line drawings in SVG format. Read here what the SVG format is about.
The drawings are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

The frames are finally gone. This means the back and forward buttons in your browser work as expected, and pages can be bookmarked.

We now offer real crystals, physical objects made from plastic. They are available here. The photo below shows a few cubic crystal forms, each about 2 centimeters large. We will add more models in the future, and you will be able to order sets of models from here. If you need a model that is not available, let us know. Almost any crystal can be made!

And: we decided to make Dexter available as freeware. Dexter is the crystal drawing program we used to create al the crystals on this site. Click here to download it.

If you have any issues or problems viewing the site or the crystals, feel free to send a message. Click here for a list of known issues and bugs.

Links

The Smorf applet is in use on these websites:

Mindat (www.mindat.org)
mineralienatlas (www.mineralienatlas.de)
The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom
The webste of the Instituto Gemológico Español

Copyright

All material on this website and webserver is copyright © 2004 Mark Holtkamp (www.smorf.nl). This includes the Java applets, the Java program code, and the crystallographic data files. You cannot use these without my permission.
If you are interested in obtaining images or drawings, email me.

Credits

Most of the crystals are based on drawings in the "Atlas der Krystallformen" by V.M. Goldschmidt, a monumental work with more than 20.000 crystal drawings. It was published between 1913 and 1923.

The design of these pages is based on the 'Pretension!' web design template by krsna77, see http://www.oswd.org