
Dear all Where can I find information on the hardware required for 3D viewing with Chimera? I am building my Linux system, so I would appreciate useful pointers. 1. IIUC, I need a Quadro card as this does not work with GeForce. What should I look for when selecting a suitable card? 2. I want to also have a second monitor. Since this is not going to be used for 3D, can I just hook up any normal monitor? Or do both monitors have to be the same model etc.? 3. I have read that I need to have a card with 3-pin DIN port. Is this true? Thanks. Mohamed

if it was me I would go with a samsung 4k monitor that can do 4k SBS under HDMI 2.0; I forget the model numbers. Then use chimera DTI for stereo 3D. This will be the maximum resolution for S3D (1920x2160), now and the foreseeable future without getting into >$50k budgets. If you want frame sequential, which will be 2x less resolution, you have to use quadro and a suitable monitor (which are scarce). It will probably cost you more this way, and you will be locked into NVIDIA S3D corporate strategy, which is messed up and confused. Hard to say where they will be on S3D in two years. HDMI 2.0 S3D is the way to go. Matthew Dougherty National Center for Macromolecular Imaging Baylor College of Medicine ================================================= ================================================= ________________________________________ From: chimera-users-bounces@cgl.ucsf.edu <chimera-users-bounces@cgl.ucsf.edu> on behalf of Mohamed Noor <mohamed.noor@ul.ie> Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 6:23 PM To: chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu Subject: [Chimera-users] 3D viewing Dear all Where can I find information on the hardware required for 3D viewing with Chimera? I am building my Linux system, so I would appreciate useful pointers. 1. IIUC, I need a Quadro card as this does not work with GeForce. What should I look for when selecting a suitable card? 2. I want to also have a second monitor. Since this is not going to be used for 3D, can I just hook up any normal monitor? Or do both monitors have to be the same model etc.? 3. I have read that I need to have a card with 3-pin DIN port. Is this true? Thanks. Mohamed _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list: Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu Manage subscription: http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users

See http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/hardware#StereoHardware for general information. There's a link to it in the Chimera's User Manual in the documentation of the stereo command. To summarize: 1) for Linux you need a workstation graphics card, ie., an AMD FirePro or NVIDIA Quadro graphics card. 2) You don't need a second monitor since Chimera uses 3D stereo within the graphics window (which is why you need a workstation graphics card). 3) Technically, you don't need a card with a 3-pin DIN if the monitor does passive stereo or if the monitor has the emitter built-in (like most 3D TVs). If you are using NVIDIA's 3D Vision product with it's emitter and 3D glasses, you need the 3-pin DIN output (not true for Windows). That said, any decent workstation graphics card that supports 3D stereo will have the 3-pin DIN output. Passive stereo from a monitor usually makes the 2D dialogs unreadable, so stick with an active stereo glasses setup for the best results (or keep the passive glasses low on your nose, and peer over them to view the 2D dialogs :-)). If you buy a 3D TV to use as a monitor, try to make sure it supports HDMI 2.0. But the best thing to do is to take your computer to the TV store and test it before buying. HTH, Greg On 04/06/2016 04:23 PM, Mohamed Noor wrote:
Dear all
Where can I find information on the hardware required for 3D viewing with Chimera? I am building my Linux system, so I would appreciate useful pointers.
1. IIUC, I need a Quadro card as this does not work with GeForce. What should I look for when selecting a suitable card?
2. I want to also have a second monitor. Since this is not going to be used for 3D, can I just hook up any normal monitor? Or do both monitors have to be the same model etc.?
3. I have read that I need to have a card with 3-pin DIN port. Is this true?
Thanks. Mohamed _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list: Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu Manage subscription: http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users
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