Assuming that you need high performance (detail/animations/zoom/pan/rotate):
Also, assuming that you can use a Wintel PC, my STRONG recommendation would
be one of the NVidia GeForce cards. The lastest versions which should be out
soon will have 4 ns DDR memory (twice as fast as the fastest water-cooled Cray).
If you want cheap, the GeForce 2 MX cards are available for less than $150
and perform fantastically. See www.tomshardware.com for more info.
Be sure you use the latest driver from NVidia (Detonator 3 is what NVidia calls it).
If you must have a Unix workstation you will pay several times more and get probably
10-20 times poorer performance. Actually, I have heard that Sun has announced
a future termination of support of OpenGL, which is required for Java3D on any
Unix platform. I could be wrong but I have the impression
that Sun is giving up on the workstation market and is focusing on servers.
If you don't care about performance use anything you like. I warn you that
on some Unix platforms you may find that some Java3D applications fail entirely.
If you stick to Wintel platforms you will want full OpenGL support. Given this,
anything should do. NVidia cards work well; ATI I have had mixed results with;
Diamond Fire GL1 and similar professional cards work well;
3dfx I have had very poor luck with.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE WITH JAVA3D ON LAPTOPS
USING THE ATI MOBILITY CHIPSET???????????
Jim Schatzman
At 06:46 PM 8/30/2000 -0700, Martial Guillaud wrote:
>Please can you recommend AGP display adapter (graphics card) for 3D visual
>simulations of biological tissue.
>
>Thanks
>
>Dr Martial Guillaud
>
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