What is Geolib ?
What is Geolib ? |
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is a Mineralogical
database that contains:
All minerals approved by the IMA, and some not yet approved
With:
Mineral systematics, Strunz, with later extensions
Literature references to mineral descriptions
Variant names and descriptions
Companion minerals (mineral associations)
Mineral Images
Cataloging system for your collection, with automatic reference
to mineral
3D VRML representations of crystal and structure
Click here to see a display of
available copper images
Click here to see a full display of
one of the copper images
This image is courtesy of Donna and Stuart Wilensky Mineral Video and shows Copper included in
a Calcite crystal.
Image and Mineral properties may be retrieved by clicking the
right mouse button on the image.
When selecting a mineral you get all the available images of that
mineral as thumbnails.
Pick one, and blow it up.
If only one image is available, this will be displayed
immediately
You can also Zoom a part of the image by dragging a rectangle on
the area you would like to enlarge.
This zoom is a true bitmap zoom, i.e., uses a stretch bit
algorithm to compensate for higher bit granularity inside the
zoomed area.
This works like a "Digital Microscope", so that details
will be kept or even enhanced.
This will work OK in the range between 10% - 80% enlargement.
Zoom ratios over this will produce some bit fragmentation and
thus less detail displayed.
Click here to display a Zoom
function Example
This image is courtesy of Martin
Friedlander
and shows Sturmanite crystals, notice the incredible 3D
effect.
Click here to see the tree selection
window
by double clicking or dragging a mineral in this tree you may
retrieve more information.
You may choose to sort the minerals either alphabetic or in
systematic order inside a mineral class or you may list them all.
See the download section for more
information
All minerals approved by the IMA, and some not yet approved
(updated febr. 1998)
With:
Mineral systematics, Strunz, with later extensions
Literature references to mineral descriptions
Mineral images (No CD-ROM, Images comes as files)
All localities from Norway referred to in NGU-publication # 68,
Neumann (1985) with 3000 literature references
4000 localities, mostly norwegian
Cataloging system for your collection, with automatic reference
to mineral
You may implement your OWN IMAGES linked to your own specimens.
You may also link documents and videos.
Maybe you have a picture or a video from your favorite
"DIAMOND LOCATION", at the moment you picked a really
gemmy one out of the ground Why not try
it and see how it works.
