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Open Inventor "Birds of a Feather" (BOF) at SIGGRAPH 2001
Wednesday August 15 2:00 - 3:30
Beverly Hilton Hotel, Santa Monica Room
Hosted by TGS Inc (www.tgs.com - booth #425)
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Open Inventor is the most widely used object-oriented, cross-
platform 3D graphics API for C++ and Java developers.
Originally created by SGI, now maintained and extended by TGS,
Open Inventor is still evolving and more powerful than ever with
new support for large data, multi-threading, multi-pipe rendering,
immersive VR, CSG rendering, terrain rendering and more.
What you think you know about Open Inventor may be obsolete!
Come to find out the latest news or to share your own news.
Current Agenda:
-- Presenting Open Inventor 3.0
TGS, Inc. (www.tgs.com - booth #425)
-- Immersive VR: CAVELib and Open Inventor
VRCO, Inc. (www.vrco.com)
-- Data visualization: Amira and Open Inventor
Indeed - Visual Concepts GmbH (www.amiravis.com)
-- Future directions
-- Open Forum
Call for participation:
The meeting time is very limited, but there is still room for a
few more speakers to give very short (5-10 min) presentations on
interesting work related to Open Inventor. Contact mmh@xxxxxxx
New in Open Inventor 3.0:
- Multiple thread support: render or modify in multiple threads
- Large data set features: avoid copying data inside Inventor
- Remote rendering: execute and render on a remote server machine
- Immersive VR features: 3D tracker events, draggers & manipulators
respond to 3D input events, CAVELib example programs
New Open Inventor extension packages:
- MultiPipe : multi-pipe large screen rendering for existing apps
- SolidViz : interactive rendering of solids defined by CSG
- TerrainViz: interactive rendering of large textured terrain
Beverly Hilton info:
9876 Wilshire Blvd - Beverly Hills, CA 90210 310-274-7777
It's a conference hotel, so there will be shuttle buses.
Open Inventor is a trademark of SGI.
Other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
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