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From: Dan White (dan_at_chalkie.org.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 18 2006 - 09:15:23 CDT

>
> Hi John,
>
> good news and bad news.
>
> OpenGL is doing the stereo business for crystal eyes stereo
> with your new VMD alpha and also with Warrens MacPyMol
> In both I select crystal eyes and i see the right kind of double
> image on the CRT.
>
> However, for some reason, the E-2 emitter box led is not lighting
> up...
> i think the emitter box is working, as i use it on an adjacent
> linux machine,,
> although i have had problems recently with that, where the emitter
> led is flashing
> at a different frequency than the CRT screen is flipping.... which
> is very odd...
> cant seem to work that one out..... any ideas?
>
> I have an old SGI next to the G5 mac with the GeForce 5200 card,
> and that has an ESGI emitter running at 96 Hz,
> and with that on , I can see the stereo images in VMD and pymol
> with the shutter glasses on,
> if i by luck get the left and right in synch and the crossover at
> the top or bottom of the screen.
>
> So it at least is partly working....
> I cant really tell if it is my stereo enabler cable not working, or
> something up with the emitter box,
> of if Apple have broken the functionality I had a while back in
> system updates....
>
> I dont see a blue line at the bottom of the display on the mac....
> which I should right?
> THats what the stereo enable cable is looking for for the synch
> signal right?
> My lnux machin has a quadro card with a port for the emitter box,
> so that has no blue line... right?
>
> I wonder If i can turn on the blue line somehow?
>
> Have you tested it on a G5 or Mac Pro with the Quadro graphics card?
> That should work nicely?
>
> cheers
>
> Dan
>
>
> On Aug 17, 2006, at 12:21 AM, John Stone wrote:
>
>>
>> Dan,
>> I've posted a new MacOS X 10.4-based build of VMD that has stereo
>> support compiled in. I'd be curious to know if it works with
>> your stereoenabler device or not, when you get a chance to try it:
>> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/alpha/
>>
>> The MacOS X stereo support is compiled into all of the 10.4 builds
>> of VMD
>> from here on out. In order to advise VMD that you want stereo
>> ahead of
>> other graphics features, you'll need to set an environment
>> variable in your
>> /bin/sh .profile (Mac builds now use /bin/sh startp scripts rather
>> than csh):
>> VMDPREFERSTEREO=1
>> export VMDPREFERSTEREO
>>
>> John Stone
>> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 12:08:21PM +0300, Dan White wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Yes mine looks just like that, i would have to check the part number
>>> though.
>>> Im not there right now
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Probably this?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.stereographics.com/products/stereoenabler/
>>>> body_stereoenabler.
>>>> html
>>>
>>> Dr. Daniel James White BSc. (Hons.) PhD
>>> Bioimaging Coordinator
>>> Nanoscience Centre and Department of Biological and Environmental
>>> Sciences
>>> Division of Molecular Recognition
>>> Ambiotica C242
>>> PO Box 35
>>> University of Jyväskylä
>>> Jyväskylä
>>> FIN 40014
>>> Finland
>>>
>>> +358 14 260 4183 (work)
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>>>
>>>
>>
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>
> Dr. Daniel James White BSc. (Hons.) PhD
> Bioimaging Coordinator
> Nanoscience Centre and Department of Biological and Environmental
> Sciences
> Division of Molecular Recognition
> Ambiotica C242
> PO Box 35
> University of Jyväskylä
> Jyväskylä
> FIN 40014
> Finland
>
> +358 14 260 4183 (work)
> +358 468102840 (mobile)
> http://www.bioimagexd.org
> http://www.chalkie.org.uk
> dan_at_chalkie.org.uk
> white_at_cc.jyu.fi
>
>

Dr. Daniel James White BSc. (Hons.) PhD
Bioimaging Coordinator
Nanoscience Centre and Department of Biological and Environmental
Sciences
Division of Molecular Recognition
Ambiotica C242
PO Box 35
University of Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä
FIN 40014
Finland

+358 14 260 4183 (work)
+358 468102840 (mobile)
http://www.bioimagexd.org
http://www.chalkie.org.uk
dan_at_chalkie.org.uk
white_at_cc.jyu.fi