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For early use of red/green stereo for molecular structures,
see the appendix and inside-back-cover of Cold Spring Harbor
Symposiua on Quantitative Biology, Volume XXXVI, 1971. Of course,
nowadays it might be hard to find this thing called a "book".
Ron Stenkamp
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Real men don't Use Stereo
A few hours later, Eleanor replied:
Morten - you are getting old! 15 years ago:
Real Men Don't Use Colour.
Eleanor
You can add another 10 years to the 15...
Boy, I hate to be right! In fact, I am actually considering giving up
on colour... ;-)
/Morten
Since Morten suggests giving up colour: I've always wondered what ever
happened to the simple "red-green" type stereo from the olden days? I
remember a primitive molecule viewer on my Atari ST (I guess I too am
getting on a bit) which used that, and as I recall it worked very nicely
indeed. Of course there's no colour, but at least for model building it
would be quite satisfactory.
The good thing is that those glasses are still easily available, for
around $5 (!!) a pair (e.g. http://www.berezin.com/3D/3dglasses.htm#Pro).
Implementing this type of stereo in existing software should be very
straightforward, and if more sophisticated stereo hardware is becoming
rare and/or absurdly expensive it may be worthwhile to provide this as an
option in graphics programs?
Sebastiaan Werten.
