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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
Howard Robinson once wrote a molecular viewer that used red/green pairs and stereo glasses. It worked well on Zenith-100's and IBM XT/AT with EGA graphics, presumably would be very nice on a pentium. Not a replacement for O by any means, but could be used for evaluating the possibilities before investing the time in producing a red/green stereo option for a modern program. Google suggests HR is currently associated with BNL. Ed
