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                                   Open InventorTM
          Project Open             URL: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/inventor/
           Inventor                Open InventorTM is an object-oriented 3D toolkit offering [Image]
              Overview             a comprehensive solution to interactive graphics programming
              News                 problems. It presents a programming model based on a 3D scene
              General FAQ          database that dramatically simplifies graphics programming. It
              Technical FAQ        includes a rich set of objects such as cubes, polygons, text,
              Mailing List         materials, cameras, lights, trackballs, handle boxes, 3D viewers,
              How to               and editors that speed up your programming
              Contribute           time and extend your 3D programming capabilities.
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                                      * is built on top of OpenGL®
                                      * defines a standard file format for 3D data interchange
          OpenGL                      * introduces a simple event model for 3D interaction
          Resources                   * provides animation objects called Engines
                                      * provides high performance object picking
              OpenGL.org              * is window system and platform independent
              OpenGL Sample           * is a cross-platform 3D graphics development system
              Implementation[Image]   * supports PostScript printing
                                      * encourages programmers to create new customized objects
          SGI Open Source             * is fun to use
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                                   SGI has received numerous requests for a Linux version of Open
          SGI Resources            Inventor. By open-sourcing this toolkit we are making it
                                   available on Linux and at the same time enabling this large and
              Press Releases       very active user community to study, understand and enhance Open
              SGI & Linux          Inventor. Earlier this year SGI released the source code of the
              Supportfolio         OpenGL Sample Implementation to the open source community,
              Customer             clearing the way for high-quality OpenGL implementations on
                                   Linux. The release of Open Inventor further highlights SGI's
              Professional         commitment to providing hardware and software technologies that
                 Services          are relevant to graphics developers.

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