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Linux Open Inventor on Athena updated, Sun version added
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Dec 13 19:19:46 2002
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cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU, cfyi@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:19:36 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've installed a new Open Inventor 2.1.5.9 locker on Athena (mostly a
bugfix release) and rebuilt everything from source. Open Inventor is an
SGI-developed 3d image manipulation toolkit and API based on the Inventor
data format (.iv). This format is also commonly known as VRML 1. The main
components are various viewers (ivview, SceneViewer, others) and the
Inventor libraries (libInventor.so. libInventorXt.so) which can be used
to develop interactive 3d applications. To access this release:
add inventor_v2.1.5.9
Followed by something like:
ivview file.iv
If you want to use one of the viewers on an Inventor file "file.iv";
running script /mit/inventor_v2.1.5.9/set-demos will launch a window with an
environment set up for running demos, as well as for compiling and running
Inventor applications based on demo code or your own.
New in this release:
Fixes for text display problems when using Text2D and Text3D objests- this had
been broken before- this should now work except for a Sun display problem
noted in the READMEs).
A Sun version, based on patches to the source made available over the
Internet. There are some display problems with the Sun version,
particularly on Ultra 5s, but most things work; some advanced features
don't- overlays are not dealt with properly, and optimized
OGL_VERTEX_MACROS don't work, for example.
Many additional examples, located below the
/mit/inventor_v2.1.5.9/distrib/$ATHENA_SYS directories, with source included.
Usage and information may be found in files:
/mit/inventor_v2.1.5.9/README.athena
README.config
/mit/inventor_v2.1.5.9/examples/README.to-run
There are many man pages describing the Inventor library functions and
binaries, below /mit/inventor_v2.1.5.9/man/man3 and
/mit/inventor_v2.1.5.9/man/man1 respectively.
I plan to make this the default Athena version during IAP 2003.
Alex
