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A General Purpose KMC Crystal Growth Simulator in Rust-WASM

A General Purpose KMC Crystal Growth Simulator in Rust-WASM

by Paedor·Apr 11, 2026·2 points·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●●SolidNiche GemBig Brain

More general than aTAM/kTAM tile models, but the audience is extremely narrow.

Strengths
  • •Rust-WASM enables browser-based scientific simulation without server infrastructure
  • •More general than existing aTAM/kTAM tile assembly theoretical models
  • •Bundled editor for designing and testing custom crystal structures
Weaknesses
  • •Extremely narrow audience limits broader developer interest or adoption
  • •Author admits it's 'mostly just fun' rather than production research tool
Category
Other
Target Audience

Researchers in computational biology, nanotechnology, and self-assembly

Post Description

For those that are interested in self-assembly, or crystal structures, I made a general purpose crystal growth simulator. It can produce samples of the global crystal structure generated by any number of local particle interactions, and comes bundled with a simple editor for designing and testing crystal structures.

Would love to get feedback on the simulator, or on the abstractions I picked for it. While it can simulate scenarios similar to those represented by the aTAM or kTAM tile models, it is significantly more general, and to my knowledge, the first in its niche.

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