Hi All, We "upgraded" our 3D viewing room with a computer that has a Quadro K2000 video card running Windows 7. The computer displays through two NEC projectors with polarizing filters that display agains a special screen. Stereo is viewed through polarized glasses just like in the movie theater. We had the stereo working a couple years ago, but it stopped with the upgrade. Here is my question: Are there any special Quadro settings I need to set to have the video card play nice with PyMOL? Which stereo_mode do I set for this type of setup? I ran through all the options (1 - 12), but none caused the appropriate stereo effect Am I restricted to full screen mode or can I run stereo in windowed mode? We only tried Windowed mode. Does the stereo_mode change if I am using full screen mode versus window mode? Any help or resources you can point me to would be greatly appreciated. (Proper procedure for aligning the projectors would be greatly appreciated. They are fairly well aligned centrally, but become blurry from misalignment at the edges.) Your help is greatly appreciated. Cheers, Chris -- Christopher L. Colbert, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry North Dakota State University P.O. Box 6050 Dept. 2710 Fargo, ND 58108-6050 PH: (701) 231-7946 FAX: (701) 231-8324
Dear Chris, We have a similar setup using an older Quadro card employing a dual screen output (one DP/DVI-port for each projector). The two "screens" are in "clone mode" (NVIDIA control panel), as described e.h. here: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3012/~/how-to-configure-passive-or-dual-pipe-stereo-with-quadro-cards-in-windows-7. The projectors are aligned using a projector-built-in test pattern. In the NVIDIA 3D settings you have to activate 'Stereo' using the 'NVidia Clone Mode Stereo' (or similarly named). In PyMol you use the 'Quad-buffered Stereo' option. The NVIDIA driver will do the rest to provide the individual left/right images. It works for full screen and also for windowed PyMol (OpenGL windows with activated stereo only). The rest of the desktop remains "cloned". Hope this helps, Christoph On 05/26/2016 08:34 PM, Christopher Colbert wrote: > Hi All, > > We "upgraded" our 3D viewing room with a computer that has a Quadro > K2000 video card running Windows 7. The computer displays through two > NEC projectors with polarizing filters that display agains a special > screen. Stereo is viewed through polarized glasses just like in the > movie theater. We had the stereo working a couple years ago, but it > stopped with the upgrade. Here is my question: > > Are there any special Quadro settings I need to set to have the video > card play nice with PyMOL? > Which stereo_mode do I set for this type of setup? I ran through all > the options (1 – 12), but none caused the appropriate stereo effect > Am I restricted to full screen mode or can I run stereo in windowed > mode? We only tried Windowed mode. > Does the stereo_mode change if I am using full screen mode versus > window mode? > > Any help or resources you can point me to would be greatly > appreciated. (Proper procedure for aligning the projectors would be > greatly appreciated. They are fairly well aligned centrally, but > become blurry from misalignment at the edges.) > > Your help is greatly appreciated. > > Cheers, > > Chris > > > > -- > Christopher L. Colbert, Ph.D. > Associate Professor > Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry > North Dakota State University > P.O. Box 6050 Dept. 2710 > Fargo, ND 58108-6050 > PH: (701) 231-7946 > FAX: (701) 231-8324 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who > bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM > restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the > apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! > https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j > > > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list (PyM...@li...) > Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pym...@li...
Thanks to Christoph and Jeroen! This was the perfect resource to make it work. Cheers, Chris -- Christopher L. Colbert, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry North Dakota State University P.O. Box 6050 Dept. 2710 Fargo, ND 58108-6050 PH: (701) 231-7946 FAX: (701) 231-8324 From: Christoph Parthier <cpa...@go...<mailto:cpa...@go...>> Date: Friday, May 27, 2016 6:59 AM To: "pym...@li...<mailto:pym...@li...>" <pym...@li...<mailto:pym...@li...>> Cc: Christopher Colbert <chr...@nd...<mailto:chr...@nd...>> Subject: Re: [PyMOL] Stereo Set up with PyMOL v1.7.4.4 EDU Dear Chris, We have a similar setup using an older Quadro card employing a dual screen output (one DP/DVI-port for each projector). The two "screens" are in "clone mode" (NVIDIA control panel), as described e.h. here: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3012/~/how-to-configure-passive-or-dual-pipe-stereo-with-quadro-cards-in-windows-7. The projectors are aligned using a projector-built-in test pattern. In the NVIDIA 3D settings you have to activate 'Stereo' using the 'NVidia Clone Mode Stereo' (or similarly named). In PyMol you use the 'Quad-buffered Stereo' option. The NVIDIA driver will do the rest to provide the individual left/right images. It works for full screen and also for windowed PyMol (OpenGL windows with activated stereo only). The rest of the desktop remains "cloned". Hope this helps, Christoph On 05/26/2016 08:34 PM, Christopher Colbert wrote: Hi All, We "upgraded" our 3D viewing room with a computer that has a Quadro K2000 video card running Windows 7. The computer displays through two NEC projectors with polarizing filters that display agains a special screen. Stereo is viewed through polarized glasses just like in the movie theater. We had the stereo working a couple years ago, but it stopped with the upgrade. Here is my question: Are there any special Quadro settings I need to set to have the video card play nice with PyMOL? Which stereo_mode do I set for this type of setup? I ran through all the options (1 - 12), but none caused the appropriate stereo effect Am I restricted to full screen mode or can I run stereo in windowed mode? We only tried Windowed mode. Does the stereo_mode change if I am using full screen mode versus window mode? Any help or resources you can point me to would be greatly appreciated. (Proper procedure for aligning the projectors would be greatly appreciated. They are fairly well aligned centrally, but become blurry from misalignment at the edges.) Your help is greatly appreciated. Cheers, Chris -- Christopher L. Colbert, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry North Dakota State University P.O. Box 6050 Dept. 2710 Fargo, ND 58108-6050 PH: (701) 231-7946 FAX: (701) 231-8324 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyM...@li...<mailto:PyM...@li...>) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pym...@li...