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Re: 3D Viewing on PC
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Thu, 17 Jan 2002 05:54:42 GMT
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There are a number of ways to do it. Probably the best way (for a
reasonable cost) would be to pick up a pair of consumer 3D shutter glasses,
which can be had for under $100. If you happen to own an nVidia-based video
card, you can download their stereoscopic 3D driver, which should work with
any of these shutter glasses, and has a whole bunch of options. In
addition, various of the glasses support video cards from various other
manufacturers.
These types of glasses work by having the 3D driver generate two images
(offset for the eye positions) instead of the standard single image, and
they do so transparently (ie, the application is unaware it is being done).
Just out of curiosity, I downloaded the nVidia driver, and turned on stereo
mode. When I then put LDView in fullscreen mode, it went into stereo mode.
This particular driver also contains support for red/blue glasses, but for
some reason this did not work with LDView.
I personally learned a number of years ago to view stereo images using the
cross-eyed technique, which is why I added it as an option to LDView. Once
I had the cross-eyed part implemented, the parallel version was just a
matter of switching the two images. I actually wanted to add hardware
stereo support, but even the nVidia stereo driver doesn't report itself as
being capable of stereo, as far as I could tell. Also, the fact that I
don't own any shutter glasses would have made it difficult to test.
--Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com)
"Michael Horvath" <mikehorvath@juno.com> wrote in message
news:Gq2Hvr.C55@lugnet.com...
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> What do you guys know about viewing information in 3D on your screen?
> In LDView it shows the option for cross-eyed and parallel. What kind of
> different ways are there available to view this stuff on home pc? Are • there
> special software platforms that allow you to look at things with 3D • glasses,
> etc.? It would be nice if there were some sort of hardware setting in
> Windows which would let you do this...
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> If you are interested, visit www.chromatek.com. I've liked this site for • a
> couple of years now. The only software platform I know that supports this
> is microdem.
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> Later,
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> Mike
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> In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs writes:
> > LDView Version 1.9 has been completed, and can be downloaded from the
> > following location:
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> > http://home.san.rr.com/tcobbs/LDView/
> >
> > LDView is an OpenGL-based real-time viewer for LDraw models written for • the
> > Microsoft Windows platform (95/98/ME and NT4/Win2000). More info can be
> > found at the website above.
> >
> > It's been a very long time since the last release (over a year), but this
> > version adds a bunch of new features. Take a look at the Change History • on
> > the website above for a list of all the new ones since v1.0.
> >
> > Please let me know if you have any comments, questions, feature • suggestions,
> > or bug reports.
> >
> > --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com)
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