Interactive Periodic Table

Home Screen
Information Display of An Element (Carbon taken here)
Instructions Menu
View Of The Periodic Table

Inspiration

There has always been a periodic table beside my study area, seeing the freedom of creating anything, I looked around myself. The period table happened to be the first thing I looked at.

What it does

This is a software which is basically a 3D, explorative software where you can move around and get details of each element.

How I built it

I obviously had to use AI (Gemeni) to generate the lists needed for each element since I couldn't hard code every single one.

The project is made in Python using the Ursina Engine. It is a library made for making 3D games, really easy syntax and I recommend it a lot!

For the positioning of the elements, I used the groups as the X-axis and the Periods as the Y-axis. For the lanthanides and actinides I just made them period number 9 and 10 (left 8 for a clear, legible gap) and started from 1 for the x-axis.

Each element is a cube which when clicked displays the info, the I made the legend both as a reference and a feature for clarity (if you want to see only one type of element once, say Noble Gases).

Challenges I ran into

I am a 10th grader so I did not know much of the information required. 118 elements overwhelmed me at first, I thought of doing it only till Xenon (54). Including the lanthanides and actinides was also challenging at first.

What I am LEARNING from MY project

As previously mentioned I am a 10th grader, for me it is fun to explore in my own software and checking out details of various elements to see their properties and what they are used for.