Introduction

OVITO is a scientific data visualization and analysis software for large-scale atomistic simulation models in materials science and related disciplines. OVITO is freely available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X under an open-source license. It is being developed by Dr. Alexander Stukowski at the Materials Science Department of Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany.

The first publicly available version of OVITO was released in December 2009. As of summer 2015, OVITO has more than active 30,000 users from the computational physics, materials science, and chemistry fields. To introduce the software package to the community, a journal article about OVITO was published in 2010.

Program features

OVITO is a software for visualizing and analyzing output data from particle-based simulations, notably molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of solid-state materials. Its main application area are large simulations based on classical potentials (103 - 108 particles). Some noteworthy program features are: