Hi Bill:
I am excited to hear that Coot works in stereo using the combination
of the Zalman LCD display and Mac mini/iBook.
Is it possible to the same thing with a Mac Pro or an iMac (Intel)?
Thanks.
Wataru Kagawa
On 2009/07/29, at 16:08, William G. Scott wrote:
> Yo people:
>
> Following Warren DeLano's recommendations at pymol.org/zalman, I got
> a Zalman monitor for about $US 300, which, in California dollars, is
> about a week's worth of groceries at our local rat-infested Safeway.
>
> The latest PyMOL and Coot both work great in stereo. I would go so
> far as to say these look as good as they did on my ca. $12K (1999
> dollars) SGI R10000s with Sony trinatron monitors, which I finally
> got rid of earlier this year. Also, the quality of the migraine
> these induce seems to be a bit more tolerable.
>
> I found it worked fine with a Mac mini (the one my kids have
> connected to a TV to watch old Flintstones episodes), and also my
> wife's first generation iBook, the latter of which has no separate
> graphics card. So if you set it up with a mini, you can have a
> dedicated stereographics workstation with a reasonable quality
> monitor for under $1K (or just have a monitor and have your users
> bring their own laptop and a DVI connector.
>
> It comes with DVI and VGA cables, and 1 pair of normal and one pair
> of clip-on circularly polarized glasses, and enough styrofoam
> packing to get rid of the last remaining wisps of an evanescent
> ozone layer.
>
> Thanks to Paul (and Warren) for implementing this.
>
> Bill
>
>
> William G. Scott
>
> contact info: http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott
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