Display Modes Submenu

   

From the popup menu you can control certain settings for the graphics display window. This submenu is used to control what stereo mode is available, and how the 3D graphics are projected onto the 2D screen. The commands available in this menu are:

• Display Modes Perspective 
  In perspective mode, items closer to the viewer appear larger than items further away from the viewer. This is the default projection in VMD. Selecting this option sets the display for perspective projection.
• Display Modes Orthographic 
  In orthographic mode, graphical objects are merely projected straight onto the screen, with no consideration of their distance from the viewer. Selecting this option sets the display to use orthographic projection.
• Display Modes Stereo Off 
  This command sets the display window back to a non-stereo mode, if it was in another mode displaying stereo images.
• Display Modes CrystalEyes 
  Selecting this mode tells VMD to display the graphics in stereo, using Stereographics Corp. Crystal Eyes stereo equipment (if available). In this mode, the monitor is set to a special scanning state to display overlapping left and right eye images, and the user must wear special glasses to see the stereo image. This is described in depth in section §.  
• Display Modes CrossEyes 
  
• Display Modes SideBySide 
  In these stereo modes, the graphics display window is split into two side-by-side halves, and separate right and left eye images are shown in the two halves. In SideBySide mode, the left eye image is shown on the left side, and the right eye image is shown on the right side. In CrossEyes mode, the images are reversed.
• Display Modes Left 
  
• Display Modes Right 
  These stereo display modes actually only show a single image; the image shown, however, is that which would be shown for the left or right eye, respectively, if any of the other stereo display modes were selected.