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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 17 2005 - 17:20:52 CDT

Hi,
  You can't use Mesa to get around the lack of stereo support on MacOS X,
but an alternative solution is to find one of the old Eye3D stereo emitters
that used "line blanking" stereo. (cuts vertical resolution in half,
only requires that the OpenGL drivers support stencil buffers)
If you can find one of those or another vendor that supports
line-blanked stereo, you can get stereo on a Mac with VMD.
Long term, I'm hoping we'll see Apple actually support windowed
stereoscopic display, but this hasn't happened yet.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:28:30PM -0400, Dr. Mick Knaggs wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to gather information about the prospects for using VMD with
> hardware stereo on a mac OS X (using either a CRT or autostereoscopic
> display). My understanding is that mac OS X does not support hardware
> stereo, and I was wondering if the Mesa libraraies could be used as a
> substitute. Any advice would be much appreciated.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mick Knaggs 

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