[PD] PD and GEM for virtual environments

[Peter Brinkmann]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 08:56:35AM +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> Peter Brinkmann wrote:
> >    - How well does GEM support stereo viewing?
> right now, there are 2 stereo-modes in Gem, anaglyph (e.g. red/green) 
> and one with 2 separate sub-windows (both in one "real" window).
Having two subwindows would work; the graphics hardware in the PORTAL
supports both twin mode and quad mode. The subwindow option would work
in twin mode. A quad option would be great to have, but twin will do.

> btw, the multiple_window feature could likely be what you need for a 
> cave-like situation.
> in theory you could have one instance of Gem on one master-computer, and 
> several slave-renderers (via remote windows)
> this would (right now) only work under linux and i am pretty sure that 
> you could not deal with large textures.
This sounds interesting, but I'm a bit worried here. When you say 'remote
windows', do you mean X forwarding? My experience is that X forwarding in
the PORTAL slows things down quite a bit.
Best,
    Peter