jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) (11/28/90)
Archive-name: sega3d/25-Nov-90 Original-posting-by: jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) Original-subject: Re: 3D glasses for Macintosh Archive-site: vega.hut.fi [130.233.200.42] Archive-directory: /pub/mac/finnish/sega3d Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) In article <11579@milton.u.washington.edu> bkuo@girtab.usc.edu (Benjamin Kuo) wr ites: >In the same line, has anyone had any success with the schematics/docs about >hooking up the Nintendo 3D vision glasses that floated out on the net >about a half a year ago? I don't know about Nintendo (I haven't seen anything that would even indicate that Nintendo has 3D glasses), but for Sega 3D glasses, you can find documentation, schematics, source code and binaries from vega.hut.fi in the /ftp/pub/mac/finnish/sega3d directory. Remember to use binary mode. >I imagine you could get quite impressive 3D action by defining >two screens for each eye and manually do animation in a program (I believe >John Calhoun, the programmer of the Mac games Glypha, Pararena, and Glider >also did a one-screen 3D game...). You can do impressive things with these glasses, but it requires some careful timing and screen switching. The demos source code for the 3D glasses doesn't assume that the machine has multiple hardware frame buffers and uses copybits to do the changes in the display. Of course this affects the performance of the machine. >It seems that this should be an "easy" addition to the Mac, since all it >involves is a bit of wiring and software. Even just playing with blue/red >glasses and a Mac II (w/Videoworks) significantly makes for a more "real" >environment. The Macintosh is not well suited for stereo animation, if you want to use a classic-style Macintosh (only two buffers) or if you want more than four colors from an 8 bit video card. Even with the 8 bit video card, you have to know how to access the video drivers directly and for that you need to read the "Designing Cards and Drivers..." book. >We had the idea of a "3D Finder", where alternate screens would shift >certain images the proper pixels/colors to achieve 3D windows, maybe a >3D mouse (left-right, up-down, back-forth). Go ahead, if you can do it, but it's not trivial. >Also, if anyone has the complete text to those schematics/etc. could they >please mail me? Thanks. If you really need mail and can not use ftp, mail me and I'll mail you the files. ____________________________________________________________________________ / Juri Munkki / Helsinki University of Technology / Wind / Project / / jmunkki@hut.fi / Computing Center Macintosh Support / Surf / STORM / ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~