CLOSING REMARKS

Feedback and Suggestions

The development of VESTA has been led by user feedback. Its phenomenal success results from the response from around the country. We assume that things are working fine provided that no feedback is received. If its users were so selfish as to behave like “black holes,” VESTA would not be improved very much. Please feel free to inform us of any bugs and your thoughts. Sending us files relevant to your troubles could facilitate the debug.

Encouraging responses would present us with driving forces for further development and refinement of VESTA.

Acknowledgments

We wish to thank Ruben A. Dilanian of Melbourne University for his dedication to a great deal of programming for VICS and VEND, the two predecessors of VESTA. Akiji Yamamoto of NIMS coded a highly efficient compressed volumetric-data format (*.m3d), and Takashi Ida of Nagoya Institute of Technology wrote Voronoi integration code for volumetric data. Masao Arai of NIMS and Masataka Mizuno of Osaka University kindly coded file converters, wien2venus.py for WIEN2k and contrd for SCAT, respectively. Hiroshi Ohki of Shinshu University helped us improve VICS, VEND and VICS-II significantly. Genta Sakane of Okayama University of Science, Takuji Ikeda of AIST, and Kazuki Komatsu of the University of Tokyo gave us many suggestions and helped us debug the program.

Finally, we thank for all who have helped us improve the program by reporting bugs and offering valuable ideas.