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6       books - Books Related to Open Inventor / Coin
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8       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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The Inventor Mentor

14       (subtitle 'Programming Object-Oriented 3D Graphics with Open Inventor')
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16       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.
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21       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.
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25       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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The Inventor Toolmaker

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.
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33       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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The Annotated VRML2.0 Reference Manual

37       This book covers the VRML97 (aka VRML 2.0) standard, which Coin has
38       implemented with its Inventor/VRMLnodes/* classes, which is an
39       extension made beyond the Open Inventor V2.1 API.
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41       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.
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45       ISBN 0-201-41974-2. You will find the specification documents for
46       VRML97 online at http://www.web3d.org/.
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The Open GL Programming Manual

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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The Open Inventor C++ Reference Manual

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.
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65       ISBN 0-201-62491-5.
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