Patent ID: 8672685

Claim:
A computerized method of demonstrating electron configurations in an atomic structure, the method comprising: presenting to a user one or more user interfaces stored in memory of the computing system, the one or more user interfaces including electron configuration diagrams; receiving user input into an orbital diagram displayed in the one or more user interfaces, the user input defining an electron configuration by placing elements representing electrons within atomic orbitals of the orbital diagram; allowing the user to define a spin state for each of the elements; upon specification of the electron configuration, generating, by a computing device, interactive visual representations of probability distributions, in three-dimensional space, of all the atomic orbitals that represent the specified electron configuration; allowing user input to select between showing all atomic orbitals corresponding to the specified electron configuration in: (i) a visually non-overlapping configuration where all of the specified atomic orbitals are separated in three dimensions, (ii) a visually overlapping configuration where all of the specified atomic orbitals are concentric in three dimensions, and (iii) one or more partially overlapping configurations where all of the specific atomic orbitals are partially concentric in three dimensions; and allowing user input to interactively specify the user's three-dimensional viewpoint of the generated atomic orbitals in both their visually non-overlapping and overlapping configurations.