| From: | Jean-Pierre |
| Date: | 17 Aug 2000 at 08:30:29 |
| Subject: | AMIOPEN: Open InventorTM Released to Open Source Community |
Care to port it, Hyperion, Anyone???
SGI Empowers Linux Developers with Popular 3D Graphics Toolkit
Open InventorTM Released to Open Source Community
SAN JOSE, Calif., LinuxWorld Expo (August 15, 2000)-SGI (NYSE: SGI) today
announced it has released the source code for its Open InventorTM 3D
graphics toolkit to the open source community. Open Inventor is the de facto
standard for rapid development of graphics applications and is used in
almost every industry, including CAD, geosciences, medicine, academia,
chemistry and movie production.
Open Inventor is a full-featured object-oriented framework for building
interactive 3D graphics applications. It simplifies the software development
process and allows very rapid development of graphics applications. Simple
enough to be an integral part of many computer graphics courses taught at
the university level, Open Inventor powers thousands of production-quality
applications.
"Open Inventor is one of the most popular graphics toolkits in the world,"
said Kurt Akeley, Chief Technology Officer, SGI. "We have received numerous
requests for a Linux version of Open Inventor. By open sourcing this
toolkit, we are making it available on Linux and at the same time enabling
this large and very active user community to study, understand and enhance
the toolkit."
"Open Inventor is an important tool for the creation of our weather-related
products," said Joseph S. D'Aleo, Chief Meteorologist, WSI Corporation.
"This open sourcing gives us the freedom to perfect and enhance the Open
Inventor toolkit, thereby strengthening our ability to offer our customers
outstanding solutions."
"The release of Open Inventor to the open source community will help
jump-start interactive graphics on Linux," said Dr. R. Bowen Loftin,
Director of the Virtual Environments Research Institute, University of
Houston.
Earlier this year, SGI released the OpenGL� Sample Implementation source
code to the open source community, clearing the way for high-quality OpenGL
implementations on Linux�. Today's release of Open Inventor further
highlights SGI's commitment to providing hardware and software technologies
that are relevant to graphics developers.
Availability
The Open Inventor source code is available for download from SGI's open
source developer Web site at http://oss.sgi.com as of today, August 15,
2000.
About SGI
SGI provides a broad range of high-performance computing and advanced
graphics solutions that enable customers to understand and conquer their
toughest computing problems. A strong advocate for open technology, SGI is
committed to contributing technology from its core competencies in
visualization and high-performance computing to the Open Source community to
help solve complex data problems. Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.,
with offices worldwide, the company is located on the Web at www.sgi.com.
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