GAMGI Formats: Plane Create

# Plane Create

- Type
- Projection
- Polygon
- View

### autonomy

When autonomy is none, rotating, moving, scaling the plane corresponds to rotating, moving, scaling the parent object. For crystallographic planes, the parent object is the cell containing the relevant crystallographic information. Atoms in the thickness region are linked to atomic planes.

When autonomy is all or partial, the crystallographic or atomic plane can be rotated, moved, scaled, independently of its parent. When autonomy is partial, atoms in the thickness region were linked to the atomic or crystallographic plane. When autonomy is all, atoms in the thickness region were copied to the atomic or crystallographic plane.

    Example: <plane ... autonomy="none"/> (default)
    Allowed values: all, partial, none (optional)

### thickness

The polygonal representation of the plane is expanded as much as possible, limited by the cell volume, in crystallographic planes, and by the atoms within the thickness range of the plane defined by the first three atoms, in atomic planes.

    Example: <plane ... thickness="0.0100"/> (default)
    (defined in GAMGI_CHEM_PLANE_THICKNESS)
    Allowed values: positive real (optional)

### order

A crystallographic plane does not exist as a single plane, is always part of a family of infinite planes, passing through all the lattice nodes, with equal distances between them. Each plane of a family (h k l) intersects the lattice in n/h n/k n/l, where n = 0 means the plane passing through the origin and n = 1 is the usual representation of the plane closest to the origin. The order parameter indicates the value of n for a specific plane.

### o1, o2, o3

A plane can also be defined indicating explicitly the coordinates of a node where the plane passes. For each plane family, there is a plane passing through the origin node and as nodes are equivalent, it follows that for any node, there is a plane of any family passing through there.

When the lattice is primitive or vectors are primitive, coordinates o1, o2, o3 are enough to identify any cell node. No default node exists as the default plane order (1) cannot be associated to a specific node for all lattices.

    Example: <cell ... o1="1" o2="0" o3="0"/> (no default)
    Allowed values: integer (optional, coupled)

### o4

When the lattice is centered and vectors are conventional, the coordinates o1, o2, o3 indicate the node in the lower-left corner of the cell where the plane passes. a fourth coordinate o4 is needed to point the centered node where the plane passes. By default, o4 is 000, so no change is introduced. When the cell lattice is primitive P or the vectors defining the node are primitive, that is the only possible value for o4. For I, C, F, R centered lattices, o4 can also take the values:

    I: 111
    C: 110
    F: 110, 101, 011
    R: 211, 122

    Example: <plane ... o4="000"/> (default)
    Allowed values: 000, 111, 110 101, 011, 211, 122 (optional)

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