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Open Inventor 2.1.5 for Linux installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Dec 5 15:07:08 2000
Message-Id: <200012052006.PAA03175@astrophel.mit.edu>
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU, seth@lcs.MIT.EDU, dorsey@lcs.MIT.EDU
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU, cfyi@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 15:06:55 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I have installed Open Inventor 2.1.5 on Athena for Linux
machines. Open Inventor is an application framework for displaying and
manipulating images of 3 dimensional objects, based on OpenGL/Mesa.
It can be used in two ways:
1. by using a viewer application like SceneViewer or ivview to view Inventor
format (.iv) scene description files- for example, try:
add inventor
then
ivview /mit/inventor/distrib/share/data/models/engine.iv
or
SceneViewer -e /mit/inventor/distrib/share/data/models/scenes/chesschairs.env
/mit/inventor/distrib/share/data/models/scenes/chesschairs.iv
2. By building stand-alone applications in C++ or C; there are some examples
in the /mit/inventor/examples directory- instructions for building them are
in file /mit/inventor/examples/README.to-run.
Documentation in the locker is primarily in the form of many man 3 man
pages located below /mit/inventor/man/man3.
The primary reference for Open Inventor is the text "the Inventor
Mentor", published by Addison Wesley- it is available online on Athena
SGIs via the SGI insight online book viewer. There is some older local
Web documentation at http://web.mit.edu/ivlib/www/home.html.
An SGI version of Open Inventor is already in the Athena release which
is why it's not in this new locker. A Sun version is not available
because the code won't currently build on Suns.
Alex
