NVIDIA 3D Anaglyph Capability

Aron Bacs, Jr. 21 years ago

Hi,

Has anyone used the 3D capability of the NVIDIA FX Series (specifically the FX 1100) in anaglyph mode (red - blue glasses) for OpenGL? and if so how?

I have tried a few ways (driver downloads from NVIDIA, etc.) but no luck so far, it would be a cool feature to help visualize some aspects of designing, especially presenting this to the masses (at product presentations)

Thanks,

Aron

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Dale Dunn 21 years ago

I don't know if anyone has successfully done this, but it would be an excellent addition to perspective view mode. Maybe they could make a cheap marketing gimmick called "Real3D" or something for bragging rights over Inventor. If they could make dimensions and annotations behave in perspective mode, I think I'd even use it.

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Wayne Tiffany 21 years ago

I can't directly answer your question, but for those that went to SWW2004, we saw a guy on stage taking a picture and then displaying it in 3D on the big screen. We all had glasses and he processed it right there in front of us. It was pretty cool.

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Aron Bacs, Jr. 21 years ago

What is working:

I have the NVIDIA FX1100 drivers (61.76 Windows XP, and the 61.76 3D Windows XP) producing 3D images with Red - Blue (anaglyph) within the NVIDIA drivers. I.E. the test application in the NVIDIA desktop settings program. It works great and looks good. You can set the convergence setting so that it does not strain your eyes (about 20% stereo separation works well) and still get a good 3D effect.

What is not working

When I run SolidWorks, I would have expected the drivers to create the 3D display area within the SolidWorks working graphics window. NVIDIA says the

3D drivers work between the program and the graphics processor on the FX1100 when turned on, and allows the program data to bypass them when off.

This explanation is published in an applications document on the NVIDIA site

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A related document is the "NVIDIA 3D Stereo User's Guide" Release 60 (Revision 6.0)

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I am therefore perplexed about a macro needing to be written to turn on 3D within SolidWorks. I think the API only has 2 commands for this and one is enable stereo? Is such a simple macro downloadable any where?

Also, the "Graphics Cards and Systems" area of the SolidWorks website

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has a new "Support 3D stereo effects" icon now in the key section on the page, showing little anaglyph glasses... maybe there is hope after all! But then again, I do not see any cards with the icon next to them :-(

Thanks everyone, I am still hopeful...

Aron

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