search site  |  contact us  HOME PRODUCTS DOWNLOADS SALES SUPPORT NEWS CrystalMaker 5.0 Wins Eddy Award Finalist in Macworld 2001 Editors' Choice Awards 11 December 2001. CrystalMaker 5.0 has been selected as a finalist in the prestigious Macworld 2001 Editors' Choice Awards, as one of the best Science/Engineering programs of the year. The Eddy Awards, the Apple Macintosh industry's highest distinction for breakthrough product development, are given to the year's top software and hardware products in 25 categories. The Macworld editors surveyed every Mac product on the market from 1 November 2000 to 1 November 2001, evaluating them for their overall quality, as well as their utility, innovation and elegance. CrystalMaker 5.0 was selected as one of the three best Science/Engineering programs, together with entries from Wolfram Research and Vector Works (the overall section winner). Originally developed whilst teaching in Cambridge, CrystalMaker is a computer program for exploring the complex arrangements of atoms and bonds that define the structures of crystals or molecules. The program is now used by many thousands of scientists worldwide - including major governmental laboratories, corporations and universities, particularly in the USA and Japan. A unique features of CrystalMaker is the ability to create fully-interactive computer models - which can be manipulated on a PC or Mac, without the need for the original program or additional equipment. These "Virtual Reality" models can easily be incorporated into CD-ROM or web-based multimedia. Recent high-profile examples include touchscreen computer exhibits at the Natural History Museum, London, and the Swedish Natural History Museum, in Stockholm. CrystalMaker 5.0 is available as an optimized Macintosh PowerPC program, running on System 7.1 through to the latest Mac OS 9 (including the Mac OS X "Classic" environment). CrystalMaker 5 is distributed on CD-ROM with over 400 annotated crystal and molecular structures, online help, powder diffraction software, movies and QuickTime Virtual Reality objects - plus a real printed user's guide. Follow these links for program and. pricing information. © 2008 CrystalMaker Software Limited. All rights reserved worldwide.