Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025?

2025-03-06 Thread Christoph Parthier
Just a quick addition: Just confirmed, quad-buffered stereo under Windows 11 also works using the Nvidia 3DVision USB IR emitter and a stereo-capable monitor (BENQ XL2720-B in my case), this time connected via DisplayPort. Once connected, the driver for the USB IR emitter is available for opti

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025?

2025-03-03 Thread Christoph Parthier
Hi Wulf, As some folks indicated already: Quad-buffered Stereo using Nvidia 3DVision shutter glasses still works under Windows 11 - no need to despair as long as you still have the proper monitor and shutter glasses... Just checked it using a new PC with a cheap professional graphics card (N

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025?

2025-03-03 Thread Diana Tomchick
Hi, Sorry, I haven’t had time to read all the posts in this thread, but do people think that these fancy new lightfield displays will be the preferred route for 3D visualization in the future? For more information, see https://www.arch.tamu.edu/app/uploads/2021/10/FoVI3D_DeepDrive.pdf Has any

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025?

2025-02-28 Thread David J. Schuller
schul...@cornell.edu From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Jeroen Mesters <cf8d8aa45b08-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2025 04:07 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025? Hi, co

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025?

2025-02-28 Thread Marius Schmidt
the brave crystallographer interprets in the two-dimensional From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Quyen Hoang Sent: Friday, February 28, 2025 9:42 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025? Dear Wulf, I

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025?

2025-02-28 Thread Quyen Hoang
Dear Wulf, I had the same problem. What I did was disconnect the computer from the university network - no longer part of its fleet, so no IT support. I'm glad to see there are other 3D fans. I, too, don’t understand how others do it without 3D. Cheers, Quyen __ Quyen Hoang, PhD Professor of Bi

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025?

2025-02-28 Thread Paul Emsley
On 28/02/2025 08:57, Greg Couch wrote: AMD and Nvidia still sell professional graphics cards that have 3D stereo support. Ah, interesting. Is that would would be needed for the Lenovo ThinkVision 27 3D?  [] For a single person, a VR headset is awesome.  And the Sony Spatial Reality and Ac

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025?

2025-02-28 Thread David J. Schuller
...@cornell.edu From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Jeroen Mesters <cf8d8aa45b08-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2025 04:07 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025? Hi, could A

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025?

2025-02-28 Thread Jeroen Mesters
Hi, could Acer's newly developed SpatialLabsStereoscopic 3D-solutions i.e. 3D-monitors offer a way out? Apparently, with the aid of AI, they claim it can transform 2D to 3D content. 3D is still alive as CAD and game software developers are currently opting for 3D-glasses-free viewing based on

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025?

2025-02-28 Thread Greg Couch
AMD and Nvidia still sell professional graphics cards that have 3D stereo support.  The 3D stereo driver support was only removed from the consumer cards.  So you should be able to reuse your old shutter glasses and display with a new system.  The problem is finding a 3D stereo capable display

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025?

2025-02-28 Thread Wim Burmeister
Hello, in principle there should be a quite simple solution: You would just have to mirror a split screen monitor image onto a smartphone. Simple virtual reality devices just consist of a smartphone with two lenses in a casing looking onto a split screen picture on the phone. Is there anybody

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025?

2025-02-27 Thread Yong Wang
: CCP4 bulletin board mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>> im Auftrag von Goldman, Adrian mailto:adrian.gold...@helsinki.fi>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2025 10:40 An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Betreff: [EXT] Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025?

2025-02-27 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
ain, and at the end also required > switching off of any energy and screen saver. Setup on Win 10 was > way easier, we haven't tried Win 11 so far. > > > > Best, > > Clemens > > > > > -- > > *Von:* CCP4 bulletin board im Auftrag von > Goldman, Adrian

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025?

2025-02-27 Thread Oganesyan, Vaheh
Personally, I cannot understand how modern structural biology can live without it and I would love to still be able view structures in "real" 3D. >From another dinosaur: side-by-side stereo is the answer for me. Properly >adjusting window size helps to reduce strain on crossed eyes. [Emoji Reques

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025?

2025-02-27 Thread Goldman, Adrian
Von: CCP4 bulletin board Im Auftrag von Goldman, Adrian Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2025 10:41 An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Betreff: Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025? I went very old school (as in 1970s—1980s) and use side by side either with mirror glasses that I put on

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025?

2025-02-27 Thread Goldman, Adrian
I went very old school (as in 1970s—1980s) and use side by side either with mirror glasses that I put on my face or indeed by making a double mirror system like we had at Yale with the ps2. Rather than having a finely machined device with anodised black aluminium and glass mirrors, I used cardbo

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D/Stereoscopic hardware options in 2025?

2025-02-27 Thread Pedro Matias
Hi Wulf, We never got our NVIDIA 3D to work with Windows 10, only with Windows 7. The Windows advantage is that the graphics cards are much cheaper than those for Linux. I believe there is a NVIDIA 3D Vision standalone driver that may work in Windows 11. Alternatively, my suggestion would

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D glassless monitors from ACER

2024-10-25 Thread Pedro Matias
Hi Krishnan, With the demise of NVIDIA 3D Vision it looks like a promising alternative. Is the display connected to a Windows or Linux PC? In Windows, even with a suitable Quadro Graphics card, there has been for some time an incompatibility between COOT and the NVIDIA OpenGL drivers that cr

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D viewing on PC

2023-10-12 Thread Pedro Matias
With the demise of NVIDIA 3D Vision, you may need to revert to the old split stereo viewers, at least until a decent VR system is implemented. On 12/10/2023 12:21, Jon Cooper wrote: Hello Oliviero If you look in the ccp4bb archive (my apologies if you already have) there are quite a few posts

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D viewing on PC

2023-10-12 Thread Jon Cooper
Hello Oliviero If you look in the ccp4bb archive (my apologies if you already have) there are quite a few posts about this at the end of July - early Aug 2020 i.e. >3 years ago. A quick look shows that the options then were mainly based on 2nd hand bits and bobs, though. Best wishes, Jon Coope

Re: [ccp4bb] 3d stereo on windows 10/11

2023-02-11 Thread ENNIFAR Eric (ARN)
You can still run latest Wincoot version in stereo on a Win10 system (no idea with Win11) with a Quadro card (even a recent RTX card) and NVidia 3D vision (or 3D Vision2) + 3D vision-compatible screen. I'm using such a configuration and it works with PyMol, WinCoot and others, although it's not

Re: [ccp4bb] 3d stereo on windows 10/11

2023-02-10 Thread mesters@biochem
Active stereo support is slowly dying and the hardware will fail in the end (sorry to say)…. One possible alternative is a passive stereo PluraView , which is expensive but compatible with software such as YASARA, ChimeraX,

Re: [ccp4bb] 3d stereo on windows 10/11

2023-02-10 Thread Wim Burmeister
Hello, you won't find anything better than the old system with the p5000 quadro cards. Just keep a linux computer running Debian 10 or Ubuntu 20 using the xfce desktop and hope that the hardware doesn't fail for the next few years. Best regards Wim De: "Krishnan Raman" À: "CCP4BB" Envoy

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D Printer Model of the Coronavirus

2021-01-29 Thread Gianluca Santoni
It could harm someone if thrown with enough force. On the good side, it is so big that contact tracing would be way easier! On January 29, 2021 6:21:38 PM GMT+01:00, Jurgen Bosch wrote: >Very, it spreads virtually. > >P.S. three printers are running soon > >___

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D Printer Model of the Coronavirus

2021-01-29 Thread Jurgen Bosch
Very, it spreads virtually. P.S. three printers are running soon __ Jürgen Bosch, Ph.D. Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy/Immunology Case Western Reserve University 2109 Adelbert Rd , BRB 835 Cleveland, OH 44106 Phone: 216.368.7565 Fax: 216.368

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D Printer Model of the Coronavirus

2021-01-29 Thread Jacob Keller
Is it infectious? JPK On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 2:14 AM Dale Tronrud wrote: > > Sometimes when explaining something, or even in private > contemplation, it is nice to have a physical object as a point of focus. > We, at the Corovavirus Structure Task Force, have created the design > files t

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D

2019-03-13 Thread Jan Stransky
We have tried PS VR, and it works even with coot. It has some obvious drawbacks with toolbars, so it is not perfect for model building, unless you have good set of keybindings configured and perfect muscle memory. I could also imagine to configure a gamepad, but we are not there yet. Jan On 3/11/

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D

2019-03-12 Thread Philippe BENAS
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Re: [ccp4bb] 3D

2019-03-11 Thread Shaun Lott
I'm still using passive, interleaved 3D, Zalman-style... Hopefully coot etc will retain support for that...! To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D

2019-03-11 Thread Paul Emsley
On 11/03/19 15:55, Pedro Matias wrote: > > Reading the news piece, I would hardly consider the present-day VR > headsets to be "affordable" - except perhaps for the PSVR. With the > added downside that they are single-user. > > When can we expect a CootVR release ? > > VR is not really a substitut

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D

2019-03-11 Thread Pedro Matias
Reading the news piece, I would hardly consider the present-day VR headsets to be "affordable" - except perhaps for the PSVR. With the added downside that they are single-user. When can we expect a CootVR release ? Às 15:45 de 11/03/2019, Joern Krausze escreveu: > > The legacy drivers will not be

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D

2019-03-11 Thread Joern Krausze
The legacy drivers will not be affected, will they? On 3/11/19 4:22 PM, David Schuller wrote: https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/11/nvidia-ends-3d-vision-support/ NVIDIA will stop supporting 3D glasses in April -- === All T

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D

2019-03-11 Thread Natesh Ramanathan
So sad to hear this. Any other alternative hardware for 3D apart from, anaglyph 3D glasses, Freeviewing cross-eyed or parallel 3D viewing methods? Best regards, Natesh On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 20:52, David Schuller wrote: > https://www.engadget.com/2019

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D

2019-03-11 Thread Francis Reyes
I’m crossing my fingers, or should I say my eyes, that they don’t! > On Mar 11, 2019, at 9:22 AM, David Schiller wrote: > > https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/11/nvidia-ends-3d-vision-support/ > > NVIDIA will stop supporting 3D glasses in April > > > > -- > ===

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D Glasses (stereo)

2019-02-08 Thread Philippe BENAS
Hi, All my Win7 workstations are dual boot Win7/Kubuntu-18.04. All work fine on both OS. In particular, Coot, PyMol, Discovery Studio etc work fine in stereo using Nvidia Vision 1 and 2 glasses and Asus VG278H monitors with built-in IR emitter. I had a HP Z620 under Win10 for which PenGL stereo

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and (pymol) Win 10/laptops

2019-02-01 Thread Philippe BENAS
Hi Jan, Pedro, CCP4ers and Cooters, Sure Pedro, you're right: real 3D, I mean stereo due to differences in the path length of the pictures respectively in the left and right eye, haven't made it in Europe except in the UK. I think in the States as well Nvidia didn't get the expected success. As

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and (pymol) Win 10

2019-02-01 Thread Jan Stransky
Dear all, thank you for the info. I have also noticed, that NVIDIA is not supporting 3D Vision activelly. You cannot even buy the glasses in our local distribution. I have just learn, that Plastation VR headset should be working without much trouble both Windows and Linux and has reasonable price.

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and (pymol) Win 10

2019-02-01 Thread Pedro Matias
Hi all, Thanks Philippe, for the comprehensive discussion of the problem. I may also add that about 2 years ago I inquired our local DELL reseller about laptops with Quadro cards (for running WinCoot in 3D stereo) because they had listed in the US site models that supposedly would work. Sadly, th

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and (pymol) Win 10

2019-02-01 Thread Philippe BENAS
Hi Georg, My first answer would be it's a bad idea for several reasons: 1. PRICE/PERF Laptops are always much more expensive than worstations for a given performance and often you cannot reach the performances of a desktop or tower computer with a laptop. 2. QUADRO + 120 Hz DISPLAY Then if you

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and (pymol) Win 10

2019-02-01 Thread Pedro Matias
Hi, You need a laptop with a NVIDIA Quadro card that supports quadbuffered 3D stereo under Linux. I found this page https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/quadro-for-mobile-workstations/ that may help find a laptop with the needed specs. For example, you can find info about a DELL la

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and (pymol) Win 10

2019-01-31 Thread Georg Mlynek
Dear all, I am considering to buy a new laptop and would like to install the latest ubuntu version and have 3D glasses. Following the discussions in the lasts years, this issue seems to be not trivial. Which setup of laptop and 3D glasses will work plug and play? And what about VR. When is coo

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and (pymol) Win 10

2019-01-31 Thread Philippe BENAS
Dear all, I had an HP Z620 that was dual boot Kubuntu 14.03 and Win 10. Coot was working in stereo mode without any problem for a year or so. But after one of their major updates Coot crashed as soon as the built-in IR emitter of my Asus VG278H turned on, as described Pedro and Jan. My personal

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and pymol

2019-01-31 Thread Pedro Matias
Hi all, The problem with COOT stereo and Windows 10 is that the COOT binary is not compatible with the newer OpenGL drivers or somesuch in Windows 10. So, COOT runs fine in Windows 10 but crashes if you enter hardware stereo mode. However, PyMOL works fine in stereo in Windows 10. According to Be

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and pymol

2019-01-30 Thread Jim Fairman
I had a Windows 7 machine that would run Quad buffered stereo back around 2009, haven't had a chance to try with Windows 10. On Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 02:03 Jan Stransky wrote: > Dear all, > > I started looking into the never ending story of stereo in > crystallography... As with our standardized li

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and pymol

2019-01-30 Thread Jan Stransky
Dear all, I started looking into the never ending story of stereo in crystallography... As with our standardized linux setup we probably are not willing to move to X.org-world, if was wondering, if anybody was succesful to make stereo working in Windows 10. I did read some NVIDIA forum, and it see

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and pymol

2018-05-18 Thread Olson, Linda
Dear Daniel, This was my question also. I just purchased a new Mac book pro and see that Mantiz sells an eGPU compatible with AMD cards for Thunderbolt 3 MacOS. I would be very interested in anyone’s experience or advice in making stereo work on the Mac platform. Linda On May 18, 2018, at 8

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and pymol

2018-05-18 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
If I may jump in, I wonder if there are any hardware configurations (monitor, 3D glasses, graphics cards, etc.) that allow 3D graphics with a MacIntosh OSX platform. -Daniel On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 4:42 AM, Wim Burmeister wrote: > I answer a bit late, but I repost a message on 3D graphics from M

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and pymol

2018-05-18 Thread Andrew Purkiss
Just to add that for the Dual-Link DP-DVI to work, you need an active adaptor which includes a supplementary USB power connection.Some years ago, we purchased some from Dell, with new machines. They are considerably more expensive than simple passive adaptors, but we have had no problems with a sta

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and pymol

2018-05-18 Thread Wim Burmeister
Dear Christine, here you can find my xorg.conf file. https://app.box.com/v/xorg-conf I gave some replies below. Sorry for the late answer, I do not read the ccp4bb every day. Best Wim On 16/05/2018 19:56, Christine Gee wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D Structure Search

2018-02-16 Thread Briggs, David C
avid C Briggs Hohenester Lab Department of Life Sciences Imperial College London UK http://about.me/david_briggs From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Daniel Rigden Sent: 16 February 2018 08:29:29 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] 3D Structure

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D Structure Search

2018-02-16 Thread Daniel Rigden
Another topology-independent method is CLICK, available as a server here http://cospi.iiserpune.ac.in/click/ You might also want to try FATCAT which considers potential flexibility of separate subdomains in its structural alignment http://fatcat.burnham.org/fatcat-cgi/cgi/fatcat.pl?-func=sear

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D Structure Search

2018-02-15 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Thursday, February 15, 2018 3:16:50 PM PST Nicola Evans wrote: > I have recently solved a novel structure which previously did not have any > structural homologues (as related by sequence identity). I was wondering if > anyone could recommend a 3D structural search engine? I used the Dali serv

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D Structure Search

2018-02-15 Thread Tomas Malinauskas
Dear Nicola, PDBeFold is great too: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/msd-srv/ssm/ Best wishes, Tomas On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 11:16 PM, Nicola Evans wrote: > I have recently solved a novel structure which previously did not have any > structural homologues (as related by sequence identity). I was wondering i

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and pymol

2018-01-03 Thread David Schuller
The Mate desktop should also work; it is a continuation of the old Gnome 2 desktop. - dave schuller On 01/03/18 04:42, Wim Burmeister wrote: I answer a bit late, but I repost a message on 3D graphics from Mai 2017 : Hello, we just wanted to share our experience in finding a configuration w

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and pymol

2018-01-03 Thread Wim Burmeister
I answer a bit late, but I repost a message on 3D graphics from Mai 2017 : Hello, we just wanted to share our experience in finding a configuration which allows to use 3D graphics under linux using Nvidia GeForce 3D glasses. We had qu

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and pymol

2017-12-18 Thread Matic Kisovec
Dear all, in case anybody is interested in a used 3D setup for crystallography one is still available: See here for more details: https://www.mail-archive.com/ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk/msg41144.html Kind regards, Matic. On 12. 12. 2017 08:39, Jim Fairman wrote: Reporting in a setup that we just m

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and pymol

2017-12-11 Thread Jim Fairman
Reporting in a setup that we just made: Quadro P4000 + 3 pin stereo bracket + 3d vision 2 kit + ASUS VG248QE. Running System76's PoPOS Ubuntu 17.10 distro - you'll have to install a desktop environment that supports non-compositing (ie: XFCE). Works beautifully. ---

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and pymol

2017-11-28 Thread mesters
sorry, small correction, it should read "or a "new, see details" Quadro 5000with build-in*3-pin**.*" Am 28.11.17 um 15:40 schrieb mesters: Hi, yes, consumer cards do have OpenGL implemented on a chip but the Nvidia driver did not allow OpenGL 3D to work until February 2013. As of Nvidia driv

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and pymol

2017-11-28 Thread mesters
Hi, yes, consumer cards do have OpenGL implemented on a chip but the Nvidia driver did not allow OpenGL 3D to work until February 2013. As of Nvidia driver version 314.07, Nvidia added OpenGL quad buffered 3D Stereo for GeForce cards (at least under MS Windows 7/8). However, this was never of

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo and pymol

2017-11-28 Thread Johannes Cramer
Hi Christine, as far as I know, it does not work at all with Geforce cards. The Nvidia drivers do not support windowed quad buffered GL, which you need for coot/pymol. It does not matter whether you use Windows or Linux. But this is based on my personal experience from around Oct. 2016. Maybe some

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D graphics under linux for coot, pymol and chimera

2017-05-22 Thread Wim Burmeister
Dear Ray, below the contents of the file. Best Wim ps. There are actually still some lines for the monitor we used previously (Benq) in the file. This model does not work correctly for stereo as it does not have a DP input. # nvidia-settings: X confi

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D viewing room options

2016-11-14 Thread mesters
Perception of depth is strongly dependent on the width of the screen and accordingly, a 49" TV should do better than a 27" Monitor :-) Anyway, if you goal is to try and accommodate more than 4 people (not all can sit on the sweet spot I guess), the 3D DLP stereo beamer setup offers a more viab

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D viewing room options

2016-11-14 Thread Arnaud Hungler
Hi all, In Stefan Arold's group, we are currently developping a virtual reality plugin for PyMol. It is based on the OSVR platform, and therefore should work with OSX, Windows, Linux, Android (if you find a way to use PyMol on an Android device !), and be compatible with any kind of 3D headset (Oc

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D viewing room options

2016-11-13 Thread Matthias Wolf
Hi Xavier et al, I second Brian's opinion. We have used a 49" 4k TV, a Sony Bravia X8500B for more than a year now with good results. http://www.sony.jp/bravia/products/KD-49X8500B/ There is probably an updated model of this around. Passive stereo 3D on this screen has better depth perception th

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D viewing room options

2016-11-12 Thread Gert Vriend
Hia Xavier, For about 10 years already we use a simple solution consisting of a cheap computer with two graphics cards, a beamer from the game industry that can project stereo, and simple liquid crystal shutter glasses. This gives us projection on the wall (just a painted wall, nothing special

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D viewing room options

2016-11-12 Thread Brian Smith
Hi Xavier, Any LG "Cinema 3D" capable TV should give you good passive stereo for the kind of thing you need and definitely work with PyMol and COOT under LINUX with a low end Nvidia Quadro (not NVS) card such as the K620 using the NVidia drivers. Sadly LG seem to have dropped 3D support from th

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing format

2015-05-15 Thread Simon Kolstoe
If it helps an academic colleague of mine has been developing hi-res full-colour 3D printed molecule models for the last 6 months or so and is very happy to help design and make any molecules of interest. These can include mini-magnets to click pieces together (ligand binding etc). I’ve included

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing format

2015-05-15 Thread Christine Zardecki
The NIH 3D Print Exchange (http://3dprint.nih.gov/) has a collection of files for 3D printing, and can generate files based on PDB ID. Christine -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/buildmodels Facebook: http://

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing format

2015-05-14 Thread Melissa Jurica
Hi- The UCSF Chimera program will all directly export a model as displayed into .stl format. https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/Outreach/technotes/ModelGallery/index.html Melissa Melissa S. Jurica, Ph.D. Professor, Molecular, Cell

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing format

2015-05-14 Thread Kathleen Frey
Hi Joe, Here are some links that he might find helpful: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:222918 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:396459 >From the instructions on the second link: "The STL File of this protein was created using PyMOL, First, you download the PDB file from the protein databank

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing format

2015-05-14 Thread Kim Van Vliet
Hi Joe, I have used a 3D printer to print out protein structures. I use Autodesk Maya 2015. There is an add on called mMaya v 1.3 which is the Molecular Maya Toolkit. This integrates with Autodesk Maya and you can load the pdb file directly for the protein that you would like to print. I usually e

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D monitors

2014-09-04 Thread Jim Fairman
It seems as though this topic is re-visited quite often on this discussion board. I would refer you to search the CCP4BB archives for an extensive amount of discussion on this topic over the past couple of years. A quick synopsis of an alterna

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D monitors

2014-09-04 Thread Ming Luo
ASUS VG278HE Black 27" 2ms (GTG) HDMI Widescreen LED Backlight LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 50,000,000:1 Built-in Speakers 3D ready, Height, Swivel adjustable -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Fares Z. Najar Sent: Thursday, September 04, 20

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D passive monitor for Mac

2014-06-25 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
I think one of our users recently purchased the LG D2343PBBN, but here's an official list (under monitors and monitor/tv's) : https://www.tridef.com/products/pc-licensed-products hopefully some of those are still available. On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Shawn Xiong wrote: > Hi: > > Recentl

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo notebook

2013-11-23 Thread Zhijie Li
Hi Zhongzhou, For laptops, the passive stereo (Zalman mode) would be the easiest way to go. All you need to do is to plug that monitor to the VGA port of you laptop. The halving of the vertical resolution under stereo mode only affects reading the characters, which can be solved by setting the

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D stereo notebook

2013-11-23 Thread mesters
Hello, Do not get your fingers burned as far as stereo under linux is concerned, nvidia's drivers do not support this for the gt and gtx cards (although these cards may have similar architecture at the end of the day e.g. kepler 107). Under linux you do need

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D graphics linux compatibility question

2013-09-17 Thread Jose Duarte
Hi Emmanuel Here we have tried the nvidia Quadro 2000 with two different monitors (both with the built-in IR emitter, thus with synching through DVI): ASUS VG278HR and BenQ XL2420TX. The setup works perfectly well in Linux, both pymol and coot work without issues. Unfortunately we have no exp

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D graphics linux compatibility question

2013-09-17 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
> (a) In previous CCP4bb discussions, it was stated that only Quadro cards > are compatible with Linux setups. But could someone tell me what the > minimum standard really is: is it Quadro FX380, 2000, 3800 or something > else ? The nVidia site lists Quadro 3700 and 3800 as the two lowest > (cheape

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing structures?

2013-08-24 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Hello, Having tried a few different options, I would say that FDM printing protein models is really the worst way of doing it. Ideally they should be printed on a powder-based device or on the photolithographic one. Both of the latter are rather expensive to own :( Artem - Cosmic Cats approve of

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing structures?

2013-08-23 Thread Edward A. Berry
Great! we can all send our .stl and slic3r files to Artem for rendering! I want to make individual subunits of a multisubunit protein, or domains of a protein like Src, and be able to fit them together to make the complex or multidomain protein. Topology constraints may require slicing some subun

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing structures?

2013-08-23 Thread Artem Evdokimov
As a proud owner of the fdm 3d printer I would like to mention that if you go from vrml to stl and then into slic3r you have to drastically refuce polygon count or else slic3r chokes trying to process the file. Cjeets, Artem On Aug 23, 2013 5:54 PM, "Edward A. Berry" wrote: > Thanks, yes, i sho

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing structures?

2013-08-23 Thread Edward A. Berry
Thanks, yes, i should have checked out the link on the original post before asking. Free programs "blender" or "meshlab" convert vmrl to .stl files which 3d-printers including makerbot read. eab Joel Sussman wrote: Output should be in *VRML* formal RasMol, PyMol & Jmol all have options to w

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing structures?

2013-08-23 Thread Joel Sussman
Output should be in VRML formal RasMol, PyMol & Jmol all have options to write out VRML format files. Sometimes you need add additional 'struts' to give additional structural support, Jmol has option of adding these struts. best regards, Joel On 23 Aug 2013, at 21:33, Edward A. Berry mailto:ber.

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing structures?

2013-08-23 Thread Edward A. Berry
Along the same lines, does anyone have a program for converting Raster-3D format such as Molscript puts out, into one of the formats readable by a 3D printer? eab Ronnie wrote: An off-topic question-now that 3D printing is becoming more common, has anyone tried to print protein structures other

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing structures?

2013-08-23 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Ronnie, I have not tried it, but a quick google search for protein ribbon 3d printer turns up the following in the results list-- http://ironchefsynbio.wordpress.com/tag/3d-printer/ http://www.lib.ua.edu/sites/default/files/rodgers/Rodgers%203D%20Printing%20Molecular%20X-ray%20Data_V1.pdf ht

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D Monitors

2013-01-27 Thread mesters
Hello Sabine, the Asus VG287H (not the HE model)! Why? - nvidia certified, so all nvidia drivers will recognize the screen correctly (we have it working under SuSe linux and windows 7) - build-in IR emitter (so works with the cheaper quadro cards), we run it with quadro 600, k1000m and 2000 mo

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D Monitors

2013-01-27 Thread David Roberts
I use the Zalman 21" monitor and it works great. Glasses from 3D movies work, so when students go to the movies I ask them to save a pair of glasses for me. It's easy and cheap - software controlled so works on all crystallographic packages that I've tried thus far. Frankly, since going to an

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D Monitors

2013-01-27 Thread Peng GONG
Sabine, I am using LG D2342P and it works fine with coot and pymol. Peng --- Peng Gong Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS --- From: Sabine Schneider To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Friday,

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D Monitors

2013-01-24 Thread Zhijie Li
Hi Sabine, We are absolutely happy with our LG D2342P. The major advantages include the simplicity in setting up and the light weight of the glasses. For more information, please read this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk/msg27816.html Zhijie --

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D alignment of points (atoms)

2012-12-28 Thread Bosch, Juergen
oard [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Dale Tronrud Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 9:10 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] 3D alignment of points (atoms) If you just want the mathematics and are willing to roll your own code, you ca

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D alignment of points (atoms)

2012-12-28 Thread Soisson, Stephen M
>> Regards >> Tom >> >> >>> Lsqkabsch should do the trick. >>> Herman >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of >>> Dale Tronrud >>> Sent: Th

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D alignment of points (atoms)

2012-12-28 Thread Jason Vertrees
in board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of >> Dale Tronrud >> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 9:10 PM >> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK >> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] 3D alignment of points (atoms) >> >> >> If you just want the mathematics and are willing

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D alignment of points (atoms)

2012-12-28 Thread Tom Oldfield
le Tronrud Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 9:10 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] 3D alignment of points (atoms) If you just want the mathematics and are willing to roll your own code, you can use the method of Wolfgang Kabsch. I see this has been enshrined in a Wikiped

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D alignment of points (atoms)

2012-12-27 Thread Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.)
- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of George Sheldrick Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 1:56 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] 3D alignment of points (atoms) A computationally elegant and probably faster approach is to use quaternions, proposed

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D alignment of points (atoms)

2012-12-27 Thread George Sheldrick
A computationally elegant and probably faster approach is to use quaternions, proposed by MacKay in Acta Cryst. A40 165-166. For a recent description of this method see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2958452/ George On 12/27/2012 09:09 PM, Dale Tronrud wrote: If you just wan

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D alignment of points (atoms)

2012-12-27 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Lsqkabsch should do the trick. Herman -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Dale Tronrud Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 9:10 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] 3D alignment of points (atoms) If you just want the

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D alignment of points (atoms)

2012-12-27 Thread Dale Tronrud
If you just want the mathematics and are willing to roll your own code, you can use the method of Wolfgang Kabsch. I see this has been enshrined in a Wikipedia page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabsch_algorithm This is what I've used when I've wanted to superimpose points where the mapping

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D projector--LG CF3D

2012-06-06 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
ohh this is a passive stereo projector. what's the distance from the projector to the screen? On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Min, Xiaoshan wrote: > Hi CCP4, > > I am curious if anyone has setup 3D-projector for large conference room.  We > have a LG CF3D projector and it is coupled to a Linux

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D system set up

2010-04-22 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
Hi, > I am about to setup a 3D system for crystallography. right now I can only > think of coot and pymol software. so I might just go with Windows sytem, > plus the Nvidia 3D vision kit If you're only going to use coot and pymol then perhaps a zalman will do?: http://www.google.com/products?q=Z

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D display - stereo only working in the lower half..

2010-03-18 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
> Only problem, using pymol or Chimera, the 3D only works in the lower half of > the screen... > In the top half, we see the two images superimposed and they are not > separated by the shutter glasses. Surprised you got it that far. > We are running it under windows. We couldn't get it to work wi

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