I am interested in computer visualization, computer modeling, and crystallographic software for teaching and research at The College of Wooster. We are going to replace our five-year old cluster of Silicon Graphics machines in the near future. We are considering a cluster of PCs with either Windows or Linux, or Macs with OS X. The big stumbling block for us has been figuring out what is the best hardware platform for three-dimensional stereo viewing. Our current Silicon Graphics machines have the Stereographics Crystal Eyes viewing system. Is there something newer, better, or less expensive than the Stereograhics Crystal Eyes viewing system that is compatible with PC or Mac? Or is the Crystal Eyes still the best system for Chimera and other molecular modeling and computer visualization software? Stereographics sells a CrystalEyes Workstation (either Windows/Linux or Mac) that looks attractive. I would appreciate any advice you can offer. ________________________________________ Virginia B. Pett Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry, The College of Wooster 943 College Mall, Wooster, OH 44691 Telephone: 330-263-2114 Fax: 330-263-2386
We use these: http://www.nuvision3d.com/the60gx.html, we purchased our newest emitter/glasses pair in 2004 for $395.00 + shipping/handling. We use several of these emitters interchangeably with SGI's/PC linux boxes. I'm not sure about stereo on mac (see http://pymol.sourceforge.net/stereo.html), yet stereographics seems to sell E2 emitters for macs?? We do have one set of stereographics crystaleyes glasses and E2 emitter on an SGI, but the funny thing is the lab users prefer the nuvision glasses when sitting at the stereographics emitter because it weighs less. It seems you can't use stereographics eyeglasses with nuvision emitter however. The range is good enough on the nuvision hardware that we can get 4-5 people around a single 21" viewsonic monitor without loss of the stereo effect. compare with the current stereographics solution: CrystalEyes 3 - active liquid crystal shutter eyewear (includes 2 CR2032 batteries) - requires emitter $795.00 E2 emitter for mac $295 E2 emitter for pc/unix $200 E2 emiiter for sgi $200 ..i think nuvision also sells a 60GX-NSR for systems with video cards that don't have hardware stereo ..but I'm not sure how that works. Hope this was helpful, Sabuj Pattanayek Virginia B. Pett wrote:
I am interested in computer visualization, computer modeling, and crystallographic software for teaching and research at The College of Wooster. We are going to replace our five-year old cluster of Silicon Graphics machines in the near future. We are considering a cluster of PCs with either Windows or Linux, or Macs with OS X. The big stumbling block for us has been figuring out what is the best hardware platform for three-dimensional stereo viewing. Our current Silicon Graphics machines have the Stereographics Crystal Eyes viewing system.
Is there something newer, better, or less expensive than the Stereograhics Crystal Eyes viewing system that is compatible with PC or Mac? Or is the Crystal Eyes still the best system for Chimera and other molecular modeling and computer visualization software? Stereographics sells a CrystalEyes Workstation (either Windows/Linux or Mac) that looks attractive.
I would appreciate any advice you can offer.
________________________________________ Virginia B. Pett Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry, The College of Wooster 943 College Mall, Wooster, OH 44691 Telephone: 330-263-2114 Fax: 330-263-2386
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Is there something newer, better, or less expensive than the Stereograhics Crystal Eyes viewing system that is compatible with PC or Mac? Or is the Crystal Eyes still the best system for Chimera and other molecular modeling and computer visualization software? Stereographics sells a CrystalEyes Workstation (either Windows/Linux or Mac) that looks attractive.
To my knowledge, Macs do not currently support stereo graphics, which is too bad... Depending on the revision of your existing crystal eyes emitters, they might work fine with a Linux box. I have an older crystal eyes emitter hooked to the Quadro 750 board in my Linux box and use the nuvision glasses that Sabuj referred to with it. It works fine. I'll repeat what Sabuj said: you cannot use crystal eyes glasses with the nuvision emitter. But the other direction works fine. We have other crystal eyes emitters which do not work with the nVidia graphics boards we have here. I am not sure why but that has been my observation. Jarrod Smith -- Jarrod A. Smith, Ph.D. Asst. Director, Center for Structural Biology Research Asst. Professor, Biochemistry Vanderbilt University
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Jarrod Smith wrote:
Is there something newer, better, or less expensive than the Stereograhics Crystal Eyes viewing system that is compatible with PC or Mac? Or is the Crystal Eyes still the best system for Chimera and other molecular modeling and computer visualization software? Stereographics sells a CrystalEyes Workstation (either Windows/Linux or Mac) that looks attractive.
To my knowledge, Macs do not currently support stereo graphics, which is too bad...
I meant to say stereo in a window - sorry. Jarrod
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