I am continuing to develop my Cave and have run into some challenges. I
really need to have 3 or more projectors.
Multiple PCI cards are not practical with Java3D. As mentioned previously,
hardware acceleration is not utilized when any part of the Canvas touches a
secondary or tertiary screnn. This may not be a problem when a "dual-head"
card is used. Most dual-head cards, however, are not so hot (something like
8 MB/monitor). If someone knows of a hot one, please let me know. This
might give me the 3 screens.
Is the lack of hardware acceleration with multiple PCI cards a function of
Java3D specifically or is this a general problem?
When you want more than 3 screens, you get into the multiple PCI card thing
again because, as far as I know, multiple AGP computers are not available.
Again, please correct me on this. Even so, I wonder if the same problem
will occur with multiple AGP cards as occurs with multiple PCI.
Would it be easier to have multiple single-card PCs working on a network?
Again, I was hoping to avoid that but I may be running out of choices. How
would such a system work?
Last question. Is there anyone out there in the world who is actually
running a decently performing 3 or more monitor Cave with Java3D? Even if
you won't tell me how you did it, the simple fact that you did would be
informative.
As always, thanks.
Alex Terrazas
University of Arizona
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