Hi Mike,
We saw a problem exactly like this on a double-wide screen
on an NT box at the BOM. It was something down in the
OpenGL drivers. Perhaps someone at BOM can tell us how that
turned out?
To help diagnose this, you might try running some of the
Java3D demos, and perhaps some plain OpenGL software, to
determine the scope of the problem. I'd be suprised if
it is VisAD-specific. It wasn't on the NT box at BOM.
You might also post questions to JAVA3D-INTEREST@xxxxxxxxxxxx
or to OpenGL or HP-specific lists or newsgroups.
Cheers,
Bill
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On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Michael Redmond wrote:
> We just installed an HP Visualize Center using Unix computers from HP
> running HP/UX and a large format Panoram display system. We installed VisAD
> with Java and Java3D (I think it is called HP3D by HP) from the HP site. It
> all came up the first time which was very nice.
>
> We are having a problem with the aspect ratio of the display when running
> the Earth example. It comes out looking like a football when it starts up
> in the small window. When we expand to the full panoramic display (2560 X
> 768) is fills the screen fully but at the wrong aspect ratio.
>
> Do you know of a setting in Java3D, VisAD or in the X drivers for OpenGL
> that can be set manually or automatically to the correct aspect ratio? Is
> there a mechanism in Java3D or VisAD to sense the aspect ratio and adjust
> to it on startup?
>
> Thanks
> Mike Redmond
> UW-Madison eMedia Center
>
>
