RE: [Algorithms] FW: [CsMain] Scene Graphs (Open Inventor open source + Performer for Linux)

[Stephen J B. <sj...@li...>]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Graham S. Rhodes wrote:

> I don't know if you all are aware of this (but some probably are), but SGI
> has released their Open Inventor scene graph engine (version 2.1 or maybe
> 2.2 I think) as open source, see this link:
> 
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/inventor/
 
Yes - but Inventor isn't really appropriate for high performance
stuff - that's why SGI have the 'Performer' scene graph for that kind
of thing.

Inventor is more for makeing cute presentations, rapid prototyping,
that kind of thing.

> It is an extensible/programmable scene graph engine that is quite powerful.
> It has a "standard" file format as well...

It's essentially VRML...or more accurately - VRML is essentially
Inventor.

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