[Paraview] Active stereo cave

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Lars,

In the current version, stereo is only supported in builtin mode. We
plan to add support for stereo for (at least) cave view in future.

Utkarsh


On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Lars Bilke <lars.bilke at ufz.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I try to use ParaView on a stereo (active shutter glasses) cave. I
> compiled PV 3.8.0-RC2 with MPI support on Linux. For testing I use only
> 1 pc connected to one 1 beamer of the cave. Stereo display is working in
> general (I tested it on that machine with glxgears -stereo and also the
> paraview standalone executable can be run in stereo).
>
> But when I try to run this in a client / server setup the stereo is not
> working. On the server (no matter if starting normal (pvserver cave.pvx)
> or with MPI (mpiexec pvserver cave.pvx)) I only see a normal (mono) image.
> I start the client with paraview --stereo --stereo-type="Crystal Eyes".
> Do I have to specify the stereo argument also to the pvserver? Or can it
> be a problem that the client runs on a virtual machine? The client
> paraview application also shows a mono image. Is it needed that the
> client machine has also stereo capabilities?
>
> Thanks in advance!!
> Lars.
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