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6 Coin_books - Books Related to Open Inventor / Coin
7 Here is a list of some of the better books for people that invested in
9 software development with Open Inventor. If you have suggestions for
10 additional books that ought to go on this list, please feel free to
11 tell us about it.
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14 (subtitle 'Programming Object-Oriented 3D Graphics with Open Inventor')
15 This is an excellently written, detailed, tutorial-style introductory
17 book for Open Inventor that takes you through all the fundamental
18 design principles applied in the Open Inventor API, richly illustrated
19 and with numerous, well documented code examples.
20 The Inventor Mentor is getting a bit old, but do not let that put you
22 off. It is as valid today as it was the day it was written, and we
23 heartily recommend this book for anyone learning to use Open Inventor.
24 ISBN 0-201-62495-8. You might also be able to find this book as a pdf
26 file online, but we recommend having it in print.
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29 This book explains how Open Inventor was designed for being extended by
30 the users, and walks you through how to develop your own components
31 that work with all aspects of Coin.
32 ISBN 0-201-62493-1. You might also be able to find this book as a pdf
34 file online, but we recommend having it in print.
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37 This book covers the VRML97 (aka VRML 2.0) standard, which Coin has
38 implemented with its Inventor/VRMLnodes/ classes, which is an extension
39 made beyond the Open Inventor V2.1 API.
40 The VRML97 format has some significant differences from the Inventor
42 and VRML1 formats, so it is a useful book if you want to use that part
43 of Coin.
44 ISBN 0-201-41974-2. You will find the specification documents for
46 VRML97 online at http://www.web3d.org/.
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49 This is the bible when it comes to OpenGL programming and is relevant
50 for Open Inventor extenders that develop new nodes that implement or
51 affect Open Inventor OpenGL rendering. There are many editions of this
52 book since it is updated whenever new versions of OpenGL are
53 standardized and comes out, so check that you have identified the
54 latest edition if you order one.
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57 Although this book is directly relevant for Open Inventor, it does only
58 cover the Open Inventor 2.1 API. This information is more or less also
59 covered in the online doxygen doc for Coin, where you have it
60 hyperlinked, and can also be generated offline from the Coin sources to
61 have locally, so we do not think this book is very useful to have in
62 print. We mention it anyway since it is an official documentation book
63 for Open Inventor.
64 ISBN 0-201-62491-5.
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