GrainSpotter is a program written in C by Soeren Schmidt of Riso. It is used to identify grains in polycrystalline materials.
This application is a graphical user interface to the C program for version 0. 30 and later. It is part of a series of Fable graphical applications based on Eclipse.
Grainspotter requires an .ini file as input with the parameters to be used for searching reciprocal space for grains. Ini files have evolved with Grainspotter version 0.3, 0.35, 0.80.
You can consult the GrainSpotter V 0.3 user manual and its ini file for this version User Manual online. The manual explains more about what GrainSpotter does and how to run it from the command line.This graphical application will help you prepare the parameters, start Grainspotter and plot the g-vectors of the found grains.
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