Dear Chimera developers,
We just bought in the our lab (Frank lab) a new Zalman 3D monitor ( http://www.zalman.co.kr/Eng/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=219). Warren Delano has written an extension to get it to work with his Pymol. In our lab, we mainly use Chimera and it would be great if it became compatible with the Zalman system.
The way the Zalman monitor works is by giving a different polarization to each row of the screen. The software just has to send the infos for each eye in alternating rows. Would that be something doable in Chimera?
By advance thank you,
Amedee
We are looking into adding support for the Zalman 3D display into Chimera. I've seen this display personally. It produces good stereographic images, although the viewing angled is somewhat limited. But at US$700 street price it's an attractive solution for viewing stereo images.
--tom ferrin
Amédée des Georges wrote:
Dear Chimera developers,
We just bought in the our lab (Frank lab) a new Zalman 3D monitor (http://www.zalman.co.kr/Eng/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=219). Warren Delano has written an extension to get it to work with his Pymol. In our lab, we mainly use Chimera and it would be great if it became compatible with the Zalman system.
The way the Zalman monitor works is by giving a different polarization to each row of the screen. The software just has to send the infos for each eye in alternating rows. Would that be something doable in Chimera?
By advance thank you,
Amedee
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On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Amédée des Georges wrote:
Dear Chimera developers,
We just bought in the our lab (Frank lab) a new Zalman 3D monitor (http://www.zalman.co.kr/Eng/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=219). Warren Delano has written an extension to get it to work with his Pymol. In our lab, we mainly use Chimera and it would be great if it became compatible with the Zalman system.
The way the Zalman monitor works is by giving a different polarization to each row of the screen. The software just has to send the infos for each eye in alternating rows. Would that be something doable in Chimera?
By advance thank you,
Amedee
You don't say what graphics card you have, nor which operating system, so I give you several answers:
(1) The current best option would be to use an ATI FireGL or FirePro graphics card on Windows or Linux, and configure the graphics card for horizontal interlaced stereo. Then chimera's "sequential stereo" camera mode should just work. I would expect that any workstation-class graphics card with stereo support work, but the graphics driver for Nvidia's Quadro FX graphics cards do not appear to support horizontal interlaced stereo yet.
(2) If you have an ATI Radeon or NVidia GeForce graphics card (or Intel motherboard graphics), then chimera would need to be modified to work with the Zalman. I suspect that this is the case for you? There is some disabled vestigial code in chimera for row-interlaced stereo. I'll looking into dusting it off and getting it into the daily build.
- Greg
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