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Open Inventor
3D Programming for Humans
Open Inventor is an object-oriented developer's tool kit that dramatically simplifies 3D graphics programming. You no longer have to be a graphics expert to develop high-performance interactive 3D programs. With the ease and modularity of a tool kit, Open Inventor puts the functionality of OpenGL at your fingertips, utilizing the best programming knowledge at Silicon Graphics to produce peak rendering performance. And with the October release of Open Inventor 2.1, developing high-performance 3D applications is easier than ever before.
Who Uses Inventor?
Open Inventor is designed for software developers that want to incorporate 3D interactivity, speed, functionality, and interoperability into their application. With Open Inventor your software development team can maintain its competitive edge by helping you to deliver a high quality product fast. Applications using Open Inventor can be found in all major 3D markets including Industrial and Computer Aided Design, Scientific and Financial Visualization, Medicine, Virtual Reality, Digital Media Production, Animation and Entertainment.
Open Inventor Delivers
Developing Fast 3D Applications Quickly
The rich Open Inventor set of preprogrammed building blocks defines a full-featured extensible framework upon which entire applications can be developed. It includes a wide variety of geometry property and group objects as well as manipulators for user interaction high-level views and editor components.
Now with Open Inventor 2.1 application frame rates have increased 20% to 400% with some gaining 1000% improvement after recompiling. Previously maximum performance was achieved through use of caching. Since caching is no longer necessary in all cases, Open Inventor 2.1 applications enable users to interactively manipulate more complex models while using less memory. Some applications particularly those that extend the toolkit will require code modifications.
3D Graphics on the Net
The Open Inventor file format forms the basis for the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) the industry-standard platform-independent file format for 3D graphics on the Internet. VRML is a subset of the Open Inventor file format.
Awesome Open Inventor Applications
Many commercial applications have taken advantage of Open Inventor, including:
Available on Major Platforms
Open Inventor is available on non-Silicon Graphics platforms from third-party developers allowing your application development to target wide user audiences.