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

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

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

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

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

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