We rely heavily on software written for the fable project. Fable is a collection of packages for multigrain crystallography. Some are still maintained, others have not been touched for 10 years. Recently, a new website was started: FABLE-3DXRD. The idea is to recreate a group of active researcher with software packages that are actually maintained.

There is competition: HEXRD, written and maintained by J. Bernier in the United States. Joel is actively working on HEXRD so one should keep an eye on it.

If something is available on FABLE-3DXRD, you should get it from there. Otherwise, you can download it from fable project.

Here is a list of packages we use

• Fabian : to look at diffraction images
• Imagemath: calculation of median / average / background images
• Peaksearch: look for peaks (part of ImageD11)
• ImageD11: experimental parameters refinement, peak assignment, can do grain indexing
• Grainspotter: grain indexing
• FitAllB: second stage refinement
• MteX: plot of grain orientations
• Polyxsim: simulation of diffraction data
• Fable: huge graphical interface, that supposedly includes everything. Sometimes it works, most of the time, it does not (anymore)
• Specific tools for DAC experiments (not public yet)

• MAUD: powder diffraction analysis