fityk

Fityk  is a general-purpose nonlinear curve fitting and data analysis software.

Although it is being developed to analyze powder diffraction patterns, it can be used to fit analytical functions to any kind of data:   crystallographic module is an independent part of the program. Apart from crystallography fityk  is reported to be used also in chromatography, photoluminescence, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, and in other fields.

At present fityk  knows only about common peak-shaped functions (Gaussian, Lorentzian, Voigt, Pearson VII etc.) and polynomial. User-defined functions will be implemented in 2005.

In terms of powder diffraction fityk  will fit the data with a set of position-correlated peaks to give the refined lattice parameters, zero-shift, sample displacement and wavelength.

Fityk  offers everything a decent refinement program should offer but first of all intuitive graphical interface. Apart from the standard Marquardt least-square algorithm one may choose a genetic algorithm or Nelder-Mead simplex method for complex or unstable cases.

Fityk  already works under Linux, Windows and MacOS X and can in principle be ported to other systems because it's GUI is written with a portable wxWidgets library. And it is free software (GPL)!

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News
2005-03-04 Version 0.4.4 released. 2004-11-12 One building problem with 0.4.3 was reported. It is fixed in fityk-0.4.3p1.tar.gz. 2004-10-30 Version 0.4.3 released. Again only minor fixes. 2004-06-30 Version 0.4.2 released. Only minor fixes. 2004-05-26 Version 0.4.1 released. 2004-04-02 Version 0.4.0 released. 2004-01-07 Fityk 0.3.4 has been released. 2003-10-31 Version 0.3.3 released. More here... 2003-05-05 The mailing list `fityk-users' has been created on SourceForge. 2003-04-15 Alexandre Vial compiled fityk on MacOS X. It can be found at fink.sourceforge.net 2003-02-25 Fityk 0.3.2 is now available. 2002-12-17 Version 0.3.1 released. 2002-11-05 Version 0.3.0 (beta) released. 2002-09-20 WWW pages were written.