Re: [Algorithms] FW: [CsMain] Scene Graphs

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

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Patrick E. Hughes wrote:

> >> but there`s no standart, and now after Fahrenheit blowup, seems there`s no
> >> hope for standart SG in nearest future, unfortuntaly
> > 
> >The worst part of it is that without a standard SG, there is no
> >way to promote the writing of generic 3D file loaders - which is
> 
> So where does Inventor and the *.iv format fit into this now that (I
> believe) it has become an open-source environment?

There are dozens of OpenSourced scene graph API's out there.
Inventor becomes yet another.  There are dozens of file formats
out there - .iv becomes yet another (and it's essentially just
VRML anyway - IIRC)

Adding another to the existing pile doesn't make for standardization.

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