Re: Stereo setup for visad

• To: tsc <arsenius@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Stereo setup for visad
• From: Bill Hibbard <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 05:32:07 -0500 (CDT)

Hi Tim,

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, tsc wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion about super().  I now have a version of SpreadSheet 
> that works in stereo, but I need to fix the eye separation problem now.  I 
> have used the following code to fix it in other apps, but I am unsure as to 
> how to make it work with visad:
>
> PhysicalBody myBody = simpleU.getViewer().getPhysicalBody();
> myBody.setLeftEyePosition( new Point3d(-.0033, 0.0, 0.0));
> // default is(-0.033, 0.0, 0.0)
> myBody.setRightEyePosition(new Point3d(+.0033, 0.0, 0.0));
>
> What I am wondering is where I would 'getPhysicalBody()' from.  I see that 
> visad uses VirtualUniverse rather than SimpleUniverse, and I would think that 
> their interfaces would be similar (though I'm looking through the 
> java/j3d/visad javadocs right now and can't find anything on 
> SimpleUniverse...weird), but it also appears that there is no way to directly 
> access a VirtualUniverse, as when a VirtualUniverse is created, it is private 
> and there are no methods to access it in UniverseBuilder.java.  Is there 
> another way to go about getting the relevent viewer or physical body?

Try:

  DisplayRendererJ3D dr
    (DisplayRendererJ3D) display.getDisplayRenderer()
  PhysicalBody pb = dr.getView().getPhysicalBody();

Good luck,
Bill
p.s., your emails would be easier to read if you
inserted end-of-line characters - as it is each
paragraph is one ling line

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  • Re: Stereo setup for visad
    • From: tsc