Daniel, The projection system itself, including non-depolarizing screen, two projectors, projector stacker (ceilling mount or floor/tabletop, depending on you needs), filter holders for the projectors, filters and glasses can be done for less than $10K
I bought ours at ProjectorPoint (screen, projectors, filter holders and stacker), http://www.projectorpoint.com, and Reason, http://www.reasonco.com (filters and glasses), both Minneapolis-based companies. You will of course also need a computer for the setup, and our Linux system / Nivida graphics is perfect for the purpose. Note that this solution requires a dual-head graphics board, and a driver capable of sending the two stereo images to separate displays. I have no experience with Macs, so I don't know if this is possible. If not, you can buy a splitter box, which splits the ususal page-flipped signal used for the shutter glases into separate left/right VGA signals. It is sold by a Norwegian vendor, I'll find the link if you are interested. BUT the price for the splitter box is high... (> $10K) You can probably buy a complete linux system with a Quadro FX3000 card for less than half of that :-) So, I guess it should be possible to have a 3D-cinema running for less than $15K. Cheers, Esben -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Moriarty To: EPF (Esben Peter Friis) Sent: 12-05-04 20:14 Subject: Re: [PyMOL] Updated OpenGL Hardware Recommendations Esben, Your last line about a stereoscopic projector system intrigued me. I have PyMOL running on my dual G5 with stereographic's crystalEyes system, and my students really enjoy using it. I've had the department chair and the dean looking at this system, and they both really like it. I wanted to bring this fully into the classroom and use it not only in biochem, but also in inorganic and organic chemistry. Unfortunately, to get a projector to use the Stereographic's system runs on the order of ~$25,000, and at that point it's another $7,000 for the system and glasses. We already have a standard TFT projector in the classroom, so your system of two projectors sounds like a possibility. I was wondering if you could tell me a little more about the system and it's setup. This might be a more reasonable way for me to go, as everyone loves the possibility of what I can do, but up to this point, I'm not sure they are willing to pony up over 30K for it. Thanks, Dan -- Dr. Daniel Moriarty Siena College Chemistry and Biochemistry Dept. 515 Loudon Road Loudonville, NY 12211 (518) 783-2472 fax: (518) 276-4887 > From: "EPF (Esben Peter Friis)" <e...@novozymes.com> > Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 08:50:41 +0200 > To: <peter.hae...@staff.uni-marburg.de> > Cc: <pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: RE: [PyMOL] Updated OpenGL Hardware Recommendations > > > Hi Peter > > > Your posting is a few weeks old, but I could see no replies yet, so I'll try > :-) > > We have single-CPU Dell machines (3 GHz, 2GB RAM), but I suppose you just buy > CPU, disk and memory according to your needs (and money :-) > > You don't write anything about OS, but according to your "ps" line, I assume > it is Linux. We use Nvidia Quadro FX3000 graphics, which I can recommend. It > is really fast (compared to our old SGIs), and the setup is straightforward. > Just download the driver from nvidia.com, run the installer, and add a few > things in the XF86Config file (see Nvidia readme file). We have successfully > tested the driver (including stereo support) with Pymol on the following OSes: > > RH 9.0 > Fedora Core 1 > Enterprise WS 3 > Windows XP > > I have no experience with O, but Pymol, VMD and Accelrys insightII graphics > works fine i stereo. > We use glasses from http://www.edimensional.com/, which are about $100 for > emitter and glasses, and $50 for extra glasses w/o emitter. There is also a > "breakout" box for use with cheaper graphics cards, but if you use the FX3000 > (or any other Quadro card), you just throw away the breakout box and connect > the emitter directly to the VESA stereo connector on the graphics card. > > We also have a 3D projection system with two projectors and polarization > filters. The Quadro cards are dual head, and the Nvidia driver is capable of > sending the L/R stereo images to different displays (requires additional setup > in XF86Config, again - see the readme file). So no problems here either. (I > haven't been able to make this work under Windows yet :-) > > > Cheers, > > Esben > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net >> [mailto:pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of >> Peter Haebel >> Sent: 27. april 2004 10:00 >> To: war...@delanoscientific.com; al...@xray.bmc.uu.se >> Cc: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net; o-i...@o-info.imsb.au.dk >> Subject: [PyMOL] Updated OpenGL Hardware Recommendations >> >> >> Dear all, >> >> we just considering to purchase new linux pcs and i would be >> very interested >> in the latest hardware recommendations? >> >> we are planning to use these machines for stereo >> visualization with pymol and >> O. >> >> cheers, >> >> >> peter >> >> >> ps. has the pymol Xig Summit2.2 problem been resolved? >> -- >> ___________________________________________ >> >> Dr. Peter Haebel >> >> Philipps-Universität Marburg >> Institut für Pharmazeutische Chemie >> Marbacher Weg 6 >> D-35032 Marburg >> >> phone: +49-6421-28-25072 >> fax: +49-6421-28-28994 >> >> email: peter.hae...@staff.uni-marburg.de >> http://www.agklebe.de >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g >> Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... >> Oracle 10g. >> Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam >> FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id149&alloc_id66&op=ick >> _______________________________________________ >> PyMOL-users mailing list >> PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/p> ymol-users >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software > Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver > higher performing products faster, at low TCO. > http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list > PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users >
