But I thought that TGS (template graphics systems) "owned" Inventor now...maybe they just licensed it and the contract just
expired, I don't know, but TGS has been the company maintaining it for the last couple of years.
No, TGS doesn't own Open Inventor. SGI owns it and deserves a lot of credit for the elegant design, productivity and extensibility possible with this toolkit. At least SGI owns the v2.1 source now released under LGPL.
TGS licensed the Open Inventor source many years ago and made v2.1 available on all the other platforms (including Linux). When SGI stopped working on Open Inventor (around '96 I think), TGS effectively took over maintenance and development too. The current release is version 2.6 and is still offered by TGS as a commercial release.
>> But, does anyone know any "real" applications that use Open Inventor?
Sure, Open Inventor just might be the most widely used scene graph API. Particularly in scientific visualization (Iris Explorer, Amira, etc), chemistry/biology and geoscience (Landmark, Schlumberger, Paradigm Geophysical, Magic Earth, etc).
Actually Open Inventor is available on all the platforms that Java runs on (at least). See http://www.tgs.com
There is also a Java binding for Open Inventor available from TGS (best of both worlds you might say:-)
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No, TGS doesn't own Open Inventor. SGI owns it and deserves a lot of credit for the elegant design, productivity and extensibility possible with this toolkit. At least SGI owns the v2.1 source now released under LGPL.
TGS licensed the Open Inventor source many years ago and made v2.1 available on all the other platforms (including Linux). When SGI stopped working on Open Inventor (around '96 I think), TGS effectively took over maintenance and development too. The current release is version 2.6 and is still offered by TGS as a commercial release.
>> But, does anyone know any "real" applications that use Open Inventor? Sure, Open Inventor just might be the most widely used scene graph API. Particularly in scientific visualization (Iris Explorer, Amira, etc), chemistry/biology and geoscience (Landmark, Schlumberger, Paradigm Geophysical, Magic Earth, etc).
Actually Open Inventor is available on all the platforms that Java runs on (at least). See http://www.tgs.com There is also a Java binding for Open Inventor available from TGS (best of both worlds you might say :-)