Hi,
Thanks for the e-mail. The current results of the survey would certainly put
you in the minority! Stereo graphics are not dead after all.
I have used systems with and without stereo graphics. I personally prefer
them, and think they are great for helping newbies refine, and for
non-structural biologists and students to look at molecular architecture. It
seems a lot of other people, for whatever reason, like them too.
Paul
From: Kevin Cowtan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Kevin Cowtan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Survey on computer usage in crystallography
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:27:04 +0100
More likely the issue is that some of us do not find stereo to be necessary
of beneficial for crystallographic model building.
In which case, given the power of modern PCs and graphics cards, a basic
off-the-shelf PC costing $1000/£500 is completely adaquate for typical
structure solution and model building problems.
I use coot a lot and I haven't even bothered installing the graphics
drivers for my graphics card. All the 3D stuff gets gone in software, and
most of the graphics hardware sits around doing nothing. If I needed the
performance, it would be a 5 minute job to install the drivers, but I
haven't needed it.
Kevin
P Hubbard wrote:
I am sorry you are unhappy with the questions, David.
As I am sure you know, I half-decent system with stereo graphics doesn't
come cheap, and if you price things together to make something that
performs well I doubt you'll get much change out of $2000.
I am aware of other 3D systems (such as those listed on www.stereo3d.com).
However, the price of peripherals like a 3D LCD monitor are prohibitively
expensive (and the quality of the images is supposed to be poor). Do you
know of a relatively inexpensive way of displaying 3D images on PCs?
Any other comments would be greatly appreciated.
Paul
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