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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
10 it.
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13 (subtitle 'Programming Object-Oriented 3D Graphics with Open Inventor')
14 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.
19 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.
23 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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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.
31 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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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.
39 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.
43 ISBN 0-201-41974-2. You will find the specification documents for
45 VRML97 online at http://www.web3d.org/.
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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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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.
63 ISBN 0-201-62491-5.
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