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6       Coin_books - Books Related to Open Inventor / Coin Here is a list of
7       some of the better books for people that invested in software
8       development with Open Inventor. If you have suggestions for additional
9       books that ought to go on this list, please feel free to tell us about
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The Inventor Mentor

13       (subtitle 'Programming Object-Oriented 3D Graphics with Open Inventor')
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15       This is an excellently written, detailed, tutorial-style introductory
16       book for Open Inventor that takes you through all the fundamental
17       design principles applied in the Open Inventor API, richly illustrated
18       and with numerous, well documented code examples.
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20       The Inventor Mentor is getting a bit old, but do not let that put you
21       off. It is as valid today as it was the day it was written, and we
22       heartily recommend this book for anyone learning to use Open Inventor.
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24       ISBN 0-201-62495-8. You might also be able to find this book as a pdf
25       file online, but we recommend having it in print.
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The Inventor Toolmaker

28       This book explains how Open Inventor was designed for being extended by
29       the users, and walks you through how to develop your own components
30       that work with all aspects of Coin.
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32       ISBN 0-201-62493-1. You might also be able to find this book as a pdf
33       file online, but we recommend having it in print.
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The Annotated VRML2.0 Reference Manual

36       This book covers the VRML97 (aka VRML 2.0) standard, which Coin has
37       implemented with its Inventor/VRMLnodes/ classes, which is an extension
38       made beyond the Open Inventor V2.1 API.
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40       The VRML97 format has some significant differences from the Inventor
41       and VRML1 formats, so it is a useful book if you want to use that part
42       of Coin.
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44       ISBN 0-201-41974-2. You will find the specification documents for
45       VRML97 online at http://www.web3d.org/.
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The Open GL Programming Manual

48       This is the bible when it comes to OpenGL programming and is relevant
49       for Open Inventor extenders that develop new nodes that implement or
50       affect Open Inventor OpenGL rendering. There are many editions of this
51       book since it is updated whenever new versions of OpenGL are
52       standardized and comes out, so check that you have identified the
53       latest edition if you order one.
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The Open Inventor C++ Reference Manual

56       Although this book is directly relevant for Open Inventor, it does only
57       cover the Open Inventor 2.1 API. This information is more or less also
58       covered in the online doxygen doc for Coin, where you have it
59       hyperlinked, and can also be generated offline from the Coin sources to
60       have locally, so we do not think this book is very useful to have in
61       print. We mention it anyway since it is an official documentation book
62       for Open Inventor.
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64       ISBN 0-201-62491-5.
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