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FIGATOM program, [Langlet (1972), J. Appl. Cryst. 5, 66-71], can already be used for drawing stereoscopic views of crystal structures or organic molecules. New facilities have now been added, so that projections of a structure as a slice parallel to any plane of the space can be plotted. The program is particularly designed to plot the close-packed plane, which is found by the program automatically (if it exists), so that condensed model-like representations can be obtained. The program can work either on real structures or on ideal stackings.