[Chimera-users] Cross eyed stereo pair generated by default

[Greg Couch]

I'm surprised too that it didn't work.  Double check that the stereo 
parameters in the Camera tool are sensible for the journal images (eg., 
the screen width defaults to the width of your monitor, but you would 
want at most the width of the page).

     -- Greg

On 07/02/2015 12:43 PM, Elaine Meng wrote:
> Hi Oliver,
> As far as I know, we weren’t aware of such a bug, so it’s good to report these things (could use menu: Help… Report a Bug).  I can’t do walleye, but cross-eye camera mode both onscreen and in saved image files works fine for me in the current daily build and latest production release.
> Best,
> Elaine
>
>> On Jul 2, 2015, at 12:22 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Elaine,
>>
>> Thanks - I am aware of this option, but there seems to be a bug in it - neither the wall eye nor cross eye modes in camera generate true stereo pairs - they are flat, with no depth after superposition.
>>
>> For example, the following image was generated using save as stereo pair (cross eye):
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/dvzd7avxdit81ie/1bl8_stereo_save.png?dl=0
>>
>> And the same view via camera mode cross eye stereo:
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/32wc1vdk18xe0ig/1bl8_stereo_camera.png?dl=0
>>
>> Interestingly, this is not the case if I save two separate images using camera mode right eye and camera mode left eye and then assemble them into a pair myself, so it seems to be specifically a bug pertaining to the stereo pair camera mode.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Oliver.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Oliver,
>> While there is not a "stereo pair: walleye” option in the Image Save dialog currently, you can set the camera mode to “wall-eye stereo”  (in Camera tool or with command “stereo wall”) and then use “same as screen” in the Image Save dialog.
>>
>> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/stereo.html>
>> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/stereo.html>
>> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/print.html#imagemode>
>>
>> The distinction is that the Image Save “stereo pair” is assembled separately from what is shown in the graphics window.
>> I hope this helps,
>> Elaine
>> ----------
>> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
>> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
>> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
>> University of California, San Francisco
>>
>>
>>> On Jul 2, 2015, at 11:20 AM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I’ve noticed that when I save a stereo pair (using File/Save Image/Image Type/stereo pair), the resultant stereo pair is suitable for cross-eyed viewing.
>>>
>>> This is great for me, as I can’t do wall eyed stereo, but the default for many journals is to provide a wall-eyed stereo pair.
>>>
>>> Of course it is easy enough to convert by swapping the two halves of the pair, but for the sake of convenience, would it be possible to list stereo pair (cross eye) and stereo pair (wall eye) as two separate options in this dialogue?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Oliver.
>>
>
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