[jfrancis]

It would be good for the beginning Maxwell materials user to have an intuitive sense of the materials.

All clear, smooth glass tends to have these parameters...
All metal tends to have these parameters...

I think it would be good to have a sort of Periodic Chart, like the chemist's table of elements, that organizes materials into regions based on common characteristics. Because this chart might nned to be multidimensional, it may take more than one table to get the job done.

I also think that numbers are hard to grasp and memorize compared to visualized data. I think each entry on the periodic chart should have a horizontal bar graph whose length shows at a glance if the value is high or low.

I'm not sure if this is feasible or not, or even if it has already been done. I'd give it a try, myself, but I need to learn more about it all, first.

[bjorn.syse]

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