Open Inventor

Currently, patches from Fedora and Debian are included. It also includes bug fixes, most notably for font rendering on 64 bit Linux platforms. A CMake build system has been added. It can be used instead of the traditional Makefiles. The precompiled font library libFL i386.a and unused RPM .spec files have been removed. git clone mkdir open-inventor-build cd open-inventor-build cmake -DCMAKE INSTALL PREFIX=/opt/inventor ../open-inventor make -j10 make install The last step is optional, as all the programs that do not try to read from hard-coded paths also work from the build directory. The included README.FIRST has instructions on how to use the original make build system. This book illustrates how to use Open Inventor. The Inventor Toolmaker : Extending Open Inventor, Release 2 (html, pdf) Josie Wernecke, Open Inventor Architecture Group Addison-Wesley, 1994 ISBN: 978-0-201-62493-9 Related Projects MeVisLab Open Inventor, a further development of the code open sourced by SGI, available as part of the MeVisLabOpenSource MeVisLabSDK on the MeVisLab download page. It comes with Qt GUI bindings (SoQtMeVis). Open Inventor Toolkit by ThermoFisher Scientific is a closed source derivative of SGI Open Inventor. Coin3D, a clean room open source reimplementation of the Open Inventor API. Together with this, bindings for many different GUI tool kits, such as Qt (SoQt and Quarter), X11 (SoXt), and Windows (SoWin) are provided. Commercial support has ended, but still maintained on GitHub.