Re: [ccp4bb] Survey on computer usage in crystallography

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Subject: Re: Survey on computer usage in crystallography
From: Paul Emsley emsley {- at -} YSBL {- dot -} YORK {- dot -} AC {- dot -} UK
Date: 2007-06-20

Me too.

I use coot quite a lot too.

In my case though, I don't have hardware rendering because I don't
know how to enable it and can't be bothered to find out.
It's fine as it it - spending more than 1000 GBP on a computer to run
CCP4 and Coot seems excessive (I don't use stereo in any of its forms).

Paul.

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 05:27:04PM +0100, Kevin Cowtan wrote:
> More likely the issue is that some of us do not find stereo to be
> necessary of beneficial for crystallographic model building.
>
> In which case, given the power of modern PCs and graphics cards, a basic
> off-the-shelf PC costing $1000/£500 is completely adaquate for typical
> structure solution and model building problems.
>
> I use coot a lot and I haven't even bothered installing the graphics
> drivers for my graphics card. All the 3D stuff gets gone in software,
> and most of the graphics hardware sits around doing nothing. If I needed
> the performance, it would be a 5 minute job to install the drivers, but
> I haven't needed it.
>
> Kevin
>
> P Hubbard wrote:
> >I am sorry you are unhappy with the questions, David.
> >
> >As I am sure you know, I half-decent system with stereo graphics doesn't
> >come cheap, and if you price things together to make something that
> >performs well I doubt you'll get much change out of $2000.
> >
> >I am aware of other 3D systems (such as those listed on
> >www.stereo3d.com). However, the price of peripherals like a 3D LCD
> >monitor are prohibitively expensive (and the quality of the images is
> >supposed to be poor). Do you know of a relatively inexpensive way of
> >displaying 3D images on PCs?
> >
> >Any other comments would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >Paul
>

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