
On March 7, Tom Goddard wrote:
I do not think Chimera produces red-green stereo, only red-cyan. Greg Couch in our lab would know. I've sent your question to the Chimera users groups so he can give a more definitive answer.
Yes, for red-cyan stereo, chimera puts the left eye in the red channel and the right eye in the blue and green channels. This allows for stereo viewing of color images with red-cyan glasses, but there are many problems, such as red objects not having any stereo cues because they are in only one eye. You will get the best stereo effect with gray-scale images (shades of gray) and if you do use color, avoid saturated colors. You can see the red, green, and blue components of a color with chimera's Color Editor tool. The color name field can be set to any of the color names in the Actions Color menu. Other glasses, red-blue and red-green, will work well with gray-scale images, but will have greater problems with ghosting (ie., part of one eye's image appearing in the other's) in color images. Ghosting will always be present to some degree unless the glasses are perfectly matched to the frequencies of light emitted by the display. So the best advice is to color your data various shades of gray. Hope this helps, Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab