Frank, Honestly, this is the job of the underlying graphics driver, and I suspect that nVidia will soon support interleaved stereo 3D via the standard OpenGL quadbuffer API. They've shown a willingness to support quite a number of different approaches already.
However, I amm wary of checkerboard-interleaved stereo 3D. None of the interleaved solutions I've seen to date can handle the kinds of thin-line visualizations crystallographers typically employ nearly as well as framebuffer-interleaved full-resolution 3D used with CRTs and active-stereo DLP projectors (such as the Christie Mirage). Thus, my ultimate hope is that DLP-based displays will eventually bypass all of this checkerboard nonsense and simply support full-resolution active stereo 3D (ideal) or passive dual-display-input passive stereo 3D (the next best option). Given that DLP projectors already do this, there seems to be no fundamental technical reason why desktop DLP displays shouldn't be able to do so as well. Cheers, Warren -- DeLano Scientific LLC Subscriber Support Services mailto:supp...@delsci.com ________________________________ From: pymol-users-boun...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:pymol-users-boun...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of S. Frank Yan Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 4:01 PM To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [PyMOL] Stereo output checkerboard format Hi, I was wondering if PyMOL will support so-called checkerboard stereo format output. This format is natively supported by the new DLP technology. We can finally get rid of the CRT monitors and put on the flat monitor and/or projection for the general audience, e.g. medicinal chemists. I think this would be a huge boost for PyMOL. Thanks, Frank
