Hi Bill:
I am excited to hear that Coot works in stereo using the combination
of the Zalman LCD display and Mac mini/iBook.
Is it possible to the same thing with a Mac Pro or an iMac (Intel)?
Thanks.
Wataru Kagawa
On 2009/07/29, at 16:08, William G. Scott wrote:
Yo people:
Following Warren DeLano's recommendations at pymol.org/zalman, I got
a Zalman monitor for about $US 300, which, in California dollars, is
about a week's worth of groceries at our local rat-infested Safeway.
The latest PyMOL and Coot both work great in stereo. I would go so
far as to say these look as good as they did on my ca. $12K (1999
dollars) SGI R10000s with Sony trinatron monitors, which I finally
got rid of earlier this year. Also, the quality of the migraine
these induce seems to be a bit more tolerable.
I found it worked fine with a Mac mini (the one my kids have
connected to a TV to watch old Flintstones episodes), and also my
wife's first generation iBook, the latter of which has no separate
graphics card. So if you set it up with a mini, you can have a
dedicated stereographics workstation with a reasonable quality
monitor for under $1K (or just have a monitor and have your users
bring their own laptop and a DVI connector.
It comes with DVI and VGA cables, and 1 pair of normal and one pair
of clip-on circularly polarized glasses, and enough styrofoam
packing to get rid of the last remaining wisps of an evanescent
ozone layer.
Thanks to Paul (and Warren) for implementing this.
Bill
William G. Scott
contact info: http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott
