Open Inventor

Open Inventor is a free object-oriented C program library for creating 3D graphics using OpenGL.

History

The programming of pure OpenGL applications is quite time consuming, so that Silicon Graphics 1988/89 decided to create a library for easy creation of 3D applications to create. Open Inventor provides predefined objects such as spheres, cylinders, Facebook sets. etc., and is relatively easy to add their own objects. The objects are stored in a scene graph and then rendered via OpenGL.

Open Inventor is still used despite its age in technical, medical and scientific applications.

Developed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. ( SGI), it was released in 2000 under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

The library is available from Silicon Graphics Incorporated as GPL version and the Visualization Sciences Group, both as a commercial as well as GPL version, under the original name Open Inventor. In addition, ( now called Kongsberg SIM) exists by the company system in motion a clone named Coin3D, which is 100% compatible with the original. Documentation, code samples and books on Open Inventor can also be used for Coin3D.

The Field routing used by Inventor influenced the structure of 3D applications sustainable and provides for Virtual Reality applications today a de facto standard dar. Thus, the underlying design pattern, for example, in InTml, Lightning and avocado was implemented.