Carbon atom - 6 electrons, 6 protons and some neutrons, each of which has a wave nature. To visualize a carbon 12 atom showing this detail would require a very small nucleus with overlapping 10cm wave packets for the 6 protons and 6 neutrons (as shown on the right), and more wavepackets for the electrons giving an atomic radius of 10km or so on this scale. So we could transform the nucleus to a single point, and concentrate on the 3 dimensional visualization of the electrons BUT the electronic density of even the single electron of a single hydrogen atom is quite tricky. It is generally done with techniques such as smoke rendering. We have developed an ''offlabel'' adaption of our atomistic visualization package AViz which uses dots in different colors to help indicate density for such cases.

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