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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 14 2009 - 13:25:50 CDT

Sinan,
  At present, there's not an means to swap left/right eyes for
scanline interleaved stereo, as the devices I wrote that code for
had an A/B toggle built-in that did this in hardware. You can adjust
the stereo separation in the Display->Display Settings menu.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 01:11:39PM -0500, Sinan Arslan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some people on this board already started using this monitor for
> stereo view, so we decided to give it a go with VMD.
>
> We have to move the window up and down one pixel to align the left and
> right images at the correct polarization as John Stone advised.
> Unfortunately in the full window mode, left and right view images do
> not match the correct polarization stripes, so we have to wear the
> glass flipped to get 3D feeling.
>
> Is there any easy way to flip the left and right view lines in the
> scan interleaved mode in VMD?
>
> Is there any way to adjust stereo separation to change the depth
> feeling, sweet spot position, etc (in scan interleaved mode)?
>
> Thanks
>
> PS: I am not an expert on stereo hardware, but this seems like a very
> cheap passive stereo solution at $270, it was said that it does not
> require any special video card or hardware. I am running this with
> Nvidia Geforce 7300 LE. Only downside is that 3D image looks
> interleaved with black lines which is not good for line
> representation, and you loose resolution in vertical direction by half
>
> --
> Sinan Arslan
> Single molecule biophysics group
> Physics Department
> U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> http://bio.physics.uiuc.edu/NewWebsite/Arslan.htm 

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