Gale Rhodes reported, on a different mailing list, that Jmol pop-up menu is (still) giving the
wrong results for "cross-eyed" and "wall-eyed" (that's on 11.1.5, and I guess also 11.0 and
10.2 at least).
We have done some checks and, on the command line,
-- The command "stereo 5" gives wall-eyed (divergent) viewing.
-- The command "stereo -5" gives cross-eyed (convergent) viewing.
This has been ascertained by Gale (I am hopeless at stereo viewing), and matches what was
reported before by some (Eric and Miguel included) on Jmol-users list in Feb.2006:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14739944
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14730567
I won't go now into the discussion whether the rotation angle is positive or negative, just the
result.
The problem is that the documentation seems to be wrong and the pop-up menu too (I have
checked old versions of Jmol and since the "stereo" command was introduced somehwere
between 10.00.11 and 10.00.18, it has worked always as now).
Documentation:
http://www.stolaf.edu/academics/chemapps/jmol/docs/?ver=11.0#stereo
says
Positive values correspond to cross-eyed viewing.
Negative values correspond to "wall-eyed" viewing.
Pop-up:
-- Style:Stereographic:Wall-eyed viewing gives cross-eyed viewing
(same result as console command "stereo -5").
-- Style:Stereographic:Cross-eyed viewing gives wall eyed viewing
(same result as console command "stereo 5").
This has been confirmed by Gale's eyes and by my inspection of the SVN
/branches/v11_0/Jmol/src/org/jmol/popup/PopupResourceBundle.java
has revision 6399
253 { "stereoCrossEyed", "stereo 5" },
254 { "stereoWallEyed", "stereo -5" },
and
/trunk/Jmol/src/org/jmol/popup/PopupResourceBundle.java
has revision 6278
253 { "stereoCrossEyed", "stereo 5" },
254 { "stereoWallEyed", "stereo -5" },
I will fix these two on SVN in some minutes. Bob, will you please correct the doc?
The other question was whether the default "stereo on" is applying "stereo 5" or "stereo -5".
Miguel's post said it should be "-5", for cross-eyed.
I have checked that and it gives "-5".
A bug: on 11.0.RC4 "stereo" by itself hangs the display (also since 10.9.102). "stereo on"
works Ok.
This is fixed on 11.1.5
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