[Chimera-users] Zalman 3D/stereo monitors

[Dougherty, Matthew T.]

For stereo on the Mac I have been using the nvidia 4500 quadro card with a view sonic CRT, chimera with sequential stereo page flipped with an stereo graphics IR & glasses.  In this scenario I was under the impression that the video page flip rate is 100-120Hz

The new 3D LCDs (e.g., Zalman, Hyundai) create stereo through circular polarization that require passive glasses.  But these monitors are working at no greater than 75hz.

The bottom line question is: if I buy one of these units to replace my view sonic CRT, will it work on my Mac?
I get the impression reading the technical specs that it might only work with vista and directX.

Thanks, Matt
 
Matthew Dougherty
713-433-3849 
National Center for Macromolecular Imaging
Baylor College of Medicine/Houston Texas USA
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-----Original Message-----
From: chimera-users-bounces at cgl.ucsf.edu on behalf of Tom Ferrin
Sent: Wed 8/5/2009 2:22 PM
To: Miles Pufall
Cc: chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu
Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Zalman 3D
 
Miles,
The other obvious thing is that you need a newer version of Chimera than 
the 1.3 production release.  Just grab any of the daily builds from 
www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/download.html.  If you still have problems 
after trying Conrad's suggestion come on down to GH-N456 and check the 
graphics settings we are using with our Zalman 3D display.

--tom



Conrad Huang wrote:
> Do you have multisampling turned on?  Multisampling on different 
> graphics cards work differently.  Some cards use values from adjacent 
> rows for computing pixel values, and this really doesn't work when using 
>   row-interleaved stereo mode.
> 
> To check if multisampling is on, use the Tools->Viewing Control->Effects 
> menu item to bring up the Viewing panel; the multisampling option should 
> be the bottom-most one on the right.
> 
> Conrad
> 
> Miles Pufall wrote:
>> Hi Guys -
>>
>> I got a Zalman 3D - it's pretty cool with Coot and Pymol. 
>>  Your site says the row-interleaved stereo view under 
>> camera will work with this monitor, but I wasn't having 
>> much success.  Do you have some more detailed instructions 
>> for this particular monitor?
>>
>> I can drop by and visit with it, or you can come see me if 
>> you's like.  Thanks!
>> Miles in Yamamoto Lab
>> S574 Genentech Hall
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