What is GWaves
GWaves is a program that displays atomic orbitals. You can view them from any direction, zoom in and out, and choose among several display modes, including a unique "electron animation" mode. Quantum numbers up to n = 9 and l = 6 are covered.
GWaves is free software, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later. This essentially means that you can use, modify and redistribute it without restrictions, except that you are required to pass along the same freedom to everybody to whom you redistribute it.
GWaves is hosted at Savannah, the software forge for people committed to free software.
News
- 14 Jun 2026
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GWaves 0.1 released.
Download
Download area: https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/gwaves/
Current release (0.1):
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Source archive:
gwaves-0.1.tar.gz (271 kB) -
Debian GNU/Linux binary package, amd64 architecture:
gwaves_0.1-1_amd64.deb (282 kB) -
Debian GNU/Linux source package:
gwaves_0.1-1.debian.tar.xz (2 kB)
gwaves_0.1-1.dsc (1 kB)
gwaves_0.1.orig.tar.gz (271 kB) -
Microsoft Windows binary executables:
gwaves-0.1-mingw32.exe (27.6 MB)
gplot-0.1-mingw32.exe (27.6 MB)
These binaries were built on Debian GNU/Linux using the MXE cross-compiling environment.
Documentation
GWaves manual:
- English, HTML version (127 kB + 103 kB image)
- English, PDF version (291 kB)
Contact
For any requests about GWaves, send email to gwaves-list@nongnu.org
To subscribe to the mailing list, or browse its archives, go to https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gwaves-list
My other projects
Galois - falling blocks game with blocks of various shapes and
sizes
https://www.nongnu.org/galois/