Immersive Visualization / IQ-Station Wiki
This site hosts information on virtual reality systems that are geared toward scientific visualization, and as such often toward VR on Linux-based systems. Thus, pages here cover various software (and sometimes hardware) technologies that enable virtual reality operation on Linux.
The original IQ-station effort was to create low-cost (for the time) VR systems making use of 3DTV displays to produce CAVE/Fishtank-style VR displays. That effort pre-dated the rise of the consumer HMD VR systems, however, the realm of midrange-cost large-fishtank systems is still important, and has transitioned from 3DTV-based systems to short-throw projectors.
VMD
Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD)
VMD is a good visualization tool for visualizing large molecular systems (typically used for large biomolecular systems). VMD has a long history of being interfaced to immersive technologies, including haptic devices and CAVE VR displays.
How to Run VMD in Immersive Mode
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How to Build VMD w/ Immersive features
- Install missing dependencies
- Commonly needed packages include:
- tcl-devel (8.x -- perhaps 8.4 or greater)
- tk-devel (8.x -- perhaps 8.4 or greater)
- fltk-devel
- ...
- Commonly needed packages include:
- Download the latest source (version 1.9.1 as of this writing [04/09/12])
- NOTE: there is a (free) registration process required
- NOTE: the pre-built packages may not contain the Immersive features
- Untar the source ball
- E.g.
% tar -zxf vmd-1.9.1.src.tar.gz
- E.g.
How to Configure VMD for Immersive displays
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Issues
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