How It Works
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

CardinalSim is designed to run on standard commercial-grade hardware and software.
The use of a high-end graphics boards is recommended given its use of ray-casting volumetric rendering.

Mac
• OS X version 10.8 or higher (but untested on 10.9)
• Processor with 4+ cores
• 4+ GB memory
• NVIDIA or AMD graphics
• Recommended: iMac 27″, MacBook Pro 15″, or Mac Pro

PC
• Microsoft Windows 7 or higher
• Processor with 4+ cores
• 4+ GB memory
• High-end graphics board (scores 2000+ on PassMark G3D:
CardinalSim supports a variety of stereoscopic display options that use side-by-side, vertical stack, or anaglyph methods.


CardinalSim supports a number of commercially-available haptic interfaces, such as those developed by Geomagic and ForceDimension.

Haptic rendering uses the Chai3D library.