PlatonicTetrahedron

A regular tetrahedron.

Constructor

PlatonicTetrahedron(L)

Parameters:

  • L, length of the edge

Usage

As for any other Form factor.

Implementation

Class PlatonicTetrahedron inherits from the interface class IFormfactor.

Form factor computation is based on the generic form factor of a polyhedron provided by libformfactor .

Volume has been validated against $$ V= \dfrac{\sqrt{2}}{12}L^3. $$

More general:

  • Pyramid3, if not regular and/or truncated.

Example

Scattering by uncorrelated, oriented tetrahedra for horizontal incidence:

Generated by Examples/ff/PlatonicTetrahedron.py .

History

Introduced in BornAgain 1.20.

Name chosen to disambiguate from “Tetrahedron”, which up to BornAgain 1.19 stood for a trigonal pyramid (Pyramid3).