License agreement
VESTA LICENSE
Version 3
Copyright (C) 2006-2024, Koichi Momma and Fujio Izumi
Version 3
Copyright (C) 2006-2024, Koichi Momma and Fujio Izumi
This software is distributed free of charge for academic, scientific, educational, and noncommercial
users. Users belonging to commercial enterprises may also use this software at no
cost until a license for business users is established.
Permission to use this software is hereby granted under the following conditions:
1) Drawings produced by VESTA may be used in any publications provided that its use is explicitly acknowledged. A suitable reference for VESTA is:
2) You should not redistribute any copy of the distributed files unless you have a written permission from us.
Part of these terms may be changed without any prior announcement.
This software is provided "as is" without any express or implied warranty.
Please report bugs and help us improve VESTA.
E-mail: vesta.dev(at)gmail.com
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Latest development versions
The latest development version is capable of visualizing quasicrystal data. Since there are vast changes in their code base it might still contains bugs. It will be released as version 4.0 in future. Windows
- VESTA-win64.zip (ver. 3.90.1a, built on Jul 11 2024, 23.1MB)
For 64-bit version of Windows.
macOS
- VESTA.dmg (ver. 3.90.0a, built on Mar 4 2024, 25.0MB)
This is a universal binary version that runs on both Intel CPUs and Apple Silicon.
It requires macOS 10.10 or newer on Intel CPUs and macOS 11 or newer on Apple Silicon.
Linux
- VESTA-gtk3-x86_64.tar.bz2 (ver. 3.90.0a, built on Mar 4 2024, 10.5MB)
Requires GTK 3.22 or newer.
Distributions where VESTA is known to work:
- Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 or later
- Ubuntu 18.04 or later
- VESTA-gtk3-arm64.tar.bz2 (ver. 3.90.0a, built on Mar 4 2024, 9.8MB)
Requires GTK 3.22 or newer.
Distributions where VESTA is known to work:
- Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 or later
Latest stable versions
Windows
- VESTA.zip (ver. 3.5.8, built on Aug 11 2022, 14.3MB)
For 32-bit version of Windows.
- VESTA-win64.zip (ver. 3.5.8, built on Aug 11 2022, 17.2MB)
For 64-bit version of Windows.
macOS
- VESTA.dmg (ver. 3.5.8, built on Aug 11 2022, 25.3MB)
Requires OS X 10.9 or newer, Intel CPUs that are capable of 64 bit instruction sets.
Linux x86_64
- VESTA-gtk3.tar.bz2 (ver. 3.5.8, built on Aug 11 2022, 23.8MB)
- vesta-3.5.8-1.x86_64.rpm (built on Aug 11 2022, 40.9MB)
Requires GTK 3.22 or newer.
Distributions where VESTA is known to work:
- Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 or later
- Ubuntu 18.04 or later
- VESTA-gtk2.tar.bz2 (ver. 3.5.8, built on Aug 11 2022, 23.1MB)
Requires GTK 2.10 or newer.
Distributions where VESTA is known to work:
- Fedora 10 or later
- openSUSE 11.2 or later
- Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 or later
- Ubuntu 9.10 or later
A deb file of VESTA for Debian distribution can also be downloaded from a repository of the MateriApps project. Please see the following web page for more details.
https://github.com/cmsi/MateriAppsLive/wiki/UsingMateriAppsInDebian-en
Older versions
OS X
- VESTA.dmg (ver. 3.4.4, built on Mar. 28 2018, 26.1MB)
The last version that runs on OS X 10.6-10.8.
Linux
- VESTA-i686.tar.bz2 (ver. 3.4.5, built on Nov. 22 2018, 13.1MB)
- vesta-3.4.5-1.i686.rpm (built on Nov. 22 2018, 35.9MB)
This is the last version runs on 32 bit Linux.
Distributions where VESTA is known to work:
- Fedora 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
- openSUSE 11.2, 11.3
- Redhat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7
- Ubuntu 9.10, 10.10
Tutorial data
- Example imput files: VESTA-Examples.zip (uploaded on Jan 12 2017, 34.1MB)
- Tutorials.7z (uploaded on Dec 14 2011, 34.8MB)
Only data files for tutorials are included but no explanations are supplied yet.
If you don't have any software to extract the 7z archive, install the following software.