Almost a year ago, I asked if there were plans to support stereo on Mac OS X. Greg replied that Chimera could only when Mac OS X supported stereo-in-a-window (see my question and Greg Couch's answer below). There seems to have been some progress on this by Apple. Their "scientific visualization" page (http://www.apple.com/science/ researchsolutions/visualization.html) says: Thanks to its PCI Express architecture, the Power Mac G5 with the optional NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics card gives researchers 3D stereo-in-a-window capabilities using a CRT display and Stereographics CrystalEyes liquid crystal shutter eyewear and E2Mac emitter. See also http://www.stereographics.com/apple.html. If I buy the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics card, will I now be able to run Chimera in stereo on a Mac? Thanks. David On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, David Belnap wrote:
As a follow-up to the discussion about stereo by Virginia and Sabuj, will Chimera currently, or in the future, work in stereo on a Mac running OS X?
Only if Mac OS X supports stereo-in-a-window. That appears to be unlikely because stereo-in-a-window is a feature that is only supported on workstation-class graphics cards (NVidia Quadro, ATI FireGL, 3DLabs Wildcat), and Apple only sells consumer-class graphics cards (NVidia GeForce, ATI Radeon). chimera needs stereo-in-a-window, instead of full-screen stereo, so the scientist can still use the dialogs to control chimera. If we figure out a reasonable way to keep the (mono) dialogs working in full-screen stereo, then we will support stereo on the Mac. (This also presupposes that most of the Tcl/Tk on Aqua bugs are fixed.) For some other thoughts about stereo hardware, see: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2004-September/ 000197.html> Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab gregc@cgl.ucsf.edu ============================================ David M. Belnap Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602 USA Phone: 801-422-9163 FAX: 801-422-0153 David_Belnap@byu.edu ============================================
You should be able to run chimera in stereo on a Mac with the Quadro card, all of the code is in place and has been for years, but we have yet to test it on an actual system. If you buy a Mac with a Quadro card, we will make "chimera --stereo" work with it within two weeks (or less), if it doesn't already. Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, David Belnap wrote:
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:47:15 -0700 From: David Belnap <David_Belnap@byu.edu> To: chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu Subject: [Chimera-users] Stereo on Mac OS X, 10.4
Almost a year ago, I asked if there were plans to support stereo on Mac OS X. Greg replied that Chimera could only when Mac OS X supported stereo-in-a-window (see my question and Greg Couch's answer below). There seems to have been some progress on this by Apple. Their "scientific visualization" page (http://www.apple.com/science/ researchsolutions/visualization.html) says:
Thanks to its PCI Express architecture, the Power Mac G5 with the optional NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics card gives researchers 3D stereo-in-a-window capabilities using a CRT display and Stereographics CrystalEyes liquid crystal shutter eyewear and E2Mac emitter.
See also http://www.stereographics.com/apple.html.
If I buy the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics card, will I now be able to run Chimera in stereo on a Mac?
Thanks.
David
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, David Belnap wrote:
As a follow-up to the discussion about stereo by Virginia and Sabuj, will Chimera currently, or in the future, work in stereo on a Mac running OS X?
Only if Mac OS X supports stereo-in-a-window. That appears to be unlikely because stereo-in-a-window is a feature that is only supported on workstation-class graphics cards (NVidia Quadro, ATI FireGL, 3DLabs Wildcat), and Apple only sells consumer-class graphics cards (NVidia GeForce, ATI Radeon).
chimera needs stereo-in-a-window, instead of full-screen stereo, so the scientist can still use the dialogs to control chimera. If we figure out a reasonable way to keep the (mono) dialogs working in full-screen stereo, then we will support stereo on the Mac. (This also presupposes that most of the Tcl/Tk on Aqua bugs are fixed.)
For some other thoughts about stereo hardware, see: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2004-September/ 000197.html>
Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab gregc@cgl.ucsf.edu
============================================ David M. Belnap Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602 USA
Phone: 801-422-9163 FAX: 801-422-0153 David_Belnap@byu.edu ============================================
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