CIFs contain a simple body of text that entirely capture the fundamental chemistry and structure of a crystal structure. Software such as VESTA takes CIFs as input and outputs useful and aesthetically pleasing crystal visualizations that can aid in crystal chemistry research and education. In order for VESTA to create such visualizations, there are several key attributes that are needed within CIFs . First, the lattice parameters and their angles with respect to one another are needed to establish the periodicity inherent in crystalline lattices. These lattice parameters also create the three-dimensional "bounding box" for the repeating unit cell and are generally represented with the variables a, b, and c with lattice angles α, β, and γ. Following the lattice information, the space group number is used to indicate which space group a particular crystal structure belongs to. The space group essentially encapsulates the symmetry properties of a given crystal structure or put more formally the space groups summarize the total number of three-dimensional patterns that are found in crystal structures . The final information is the basis describing the arrangement of atoms associated with each lattice point. The basis allows us to distinguish different crystal structures having unique chemistries and atomic positions while retaining identical symmetry. The basis and the symmetry operations are combined to generate the exact atomic positions for all atoms within the unit cell.