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Crystal Eyes Stereo

Crystal Eyes stereo refers to a special hardware option available on Silicon Graphics workstations that allows one to view three-dimensional objects through the use of a special display monitor mode and special stereo viewing glasses. Stereographics Corp. is one such supplier of these glasses. This mode also requires special infrared emitters to synchronize the stereo glasses with the display monitor.

There are presently two types of Crystal Eyes stereo modes available on SGI machines; which one is used depends on the available graphics hardware (see the man page stereo(7)). Follow the outline below for the relevant graphics option:





Justin Gullingsrud
Tue Apr 6 09:22:39 CDT 1999