Miguel & others, The trick with the Sharp 3D display is to interlace the left & right images horizontally, with the left image on the even columns and the right image on the odd columns (or vice versa -- it needs to be easy to swap parity, since windows aren't fixed). The Sharp SDK that ships with the laptop does this using OpenGL hardware stenciling. In the case of Jmol, g3d itself would need to be modified to accomplish this in software
[Miguel, if you implement what I've described above, I can test & troubleshoot it -- or you could stop by some evening if you're still visiting the bay area with regularity.] I am curious the know whether or not g3d will be able to create a stereo pair that is as effective as hardware OpenGL. From what I understand, g3d is only good down to the pixel level, whereas stereo technologies like Sharp 3D sometimes require antialiased sub-pixel accuracy in order to avoid artifacts. We'll see! Cheers, Warren -- Warren L. DeLano, Ph.D. Principal Scientist . DeLano Scientific LLC . 400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 213 . South San Francisco, CA 94080 USA . Biz:(650)-872-0942 Tech:(650)-872-0834 . Fax:(650)-872-0273 Cell:(650)-346-1154 . mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Miguel > Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 6:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Jmol-developers] DOC - stereo > > > For what I understand, there may be two possibilities to render 3D > > stereo images with it : > > - classic one: use OpenGL and the driver will do the rest. > It requires > > a lot of work > > - maybe second possibility: in columns with even number, > draw pixels > > for left eye, in columns with odd number drax pixels for right eye > > > > If second method works, it may be easy to use. > > I am just guessing, Miguel what do you think ? > > Warren Delano (PyMOL) has a laptop with one of these monitors. > > He said that it was quite easy to convert PyMOL to using it. > PyMOL uses OpenGL, but he thought that the second /interlaced > method would be very easy for Jmol. > > Per your previous message ... we just need Sharp to loan us a > monitor (or two :-) > > > Miguel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & > EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development > Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * > Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process > Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers > > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
