Re: [Jmol-developers] revision of "stereo": fix in pop-up menu

[Bob H. <ha...@st...>]

Option 1: Change the documentation and pop-up menu.
Option 2: Change the sign in the code.

Doesn't matter to me. I'm monocular. :)

Bob
 

Angel Herraez wrote:

> Gale Rhodes reported, on a different mailing list, that Jmol pop-up 
> menu is (still) giving the wrong results for "cross-eyed" and 
> "wall-eyed" (that's on 11.1.5, and I guess also 11.0 and 10.2 at least).
>
> We have done some checks and, on the command line,
> -- The command "stereo 5" gives wall-eyed (divergent) viewing.
> -- The command "stereo -5" gives cross-eyed (convergent) viewing.
>
> This has been ascertained by Gale (I am hopeless at stereo viewing), 
> and matches what was reported before by some (Eric and Miguel 
> included) on Jmol-users list in Feb.2006:
> _http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14739944_
> _http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14730567_
>
> I won't go now into the discussion whether the rotation angle is 
> positive or negative, just the result.
>
> The problem is that the documentation seems to be wrong and the pop-up 
> menu too (I have checked old versions of Jmol and since the "stereo" 
> command was introduced somehwere between 10.00.11 and 10.00.18, it has 
> worked always as now).
>
> Documentation:
> http://www.stolaf.edu/academics/chemapps/jmol/docs/?ver=11.0#stereo
> says
>   Positive values correspond to cross-eyed viewing.
>   Negative values correspond to "wall-eyed" viewing.
>
> Pop-up:
> -- Style:Stereographic:Wall-eyed viewing gives cross-eyed viewing 
> (same result as console command "stereo -5").
> -- Style:Stereographic:Cross-eyed viewing gives wall eyed viewing 
> (same result as console command "stereo 5").
>
> This has been confirmed by Gale's eyes and by my inspection of the SVN
> /branches/v11_0/Jmol/src/org/jmol/popup/PopupResourceBundle.java
> has revision 6399
>   253       { "stereoCrossEyed", "stereo 5" },
>   254       { "stereoWallEyed", "stereo -5" },
> and
> /trunk/Jmol/src/org/jmol/popup/PopupResourceBundle.java
> has revision 6278
>   253       { "stereoCrossEyed", "stereo 5" },
>   254       { "stereoWallEyed", "stereo -5" },
>
>
> I will fix these two on SVN in some minutes. Bob, will you please 
> correct the doc?
>
>
> The other question was whether the default "stereo on" is applying 
> "stereo 5" or "stereo -5". Miguel's post said it should be "-5", for 
> cross-eyed.
> I have checked that and it gives "-5".
>
> A bug: on 11.0.RC4 "stereo" by itself hangs the display (also since 
> 10.9.102). "stereo on" works Ok.
> This is fixed on 11.1.5
>
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