http://www.sgi.com/tech/Inventor/doc.html (Silicon Surf Promotional CD, 01/1995)
Open Inventor Documentation
Manuals
The Open Inventor toolkit is documented primarily in three books
published by Addison-Wesley:
- The most comprehensive source of information on using Open
Inventor is The Inventor Mentor by Josie Wernecke (ISBN
0-201-62495-8). A summary of
The Inventor Mentor, organized by John Barrus, is
available.
- Extending Open Inventor by adding new classes is explained in
The Inventor Toolmaker, also by Josie Wernecke (ISBN
0-201-62493-1).
- The Open Inventor C++ Reference Manual contains hard-copy
versions of the online manual pages for all Inventor object classes
(ISBN 0-201-62491-5).
Other Documentation
These other handy documents are available:
- A summary of
The Inventor Mentor. Not a substitute for the real thing,
but it will give you a feel for what Inventor is all about.
- A PostScript version of the Open Inventor Nodes Quick
Reference is available through
this link if your WWW viewer can view PostScript, or is also
available
via anonymous
ftp for easy downloading.
- A PostScript version of the guide describing How to
Write an Open Inventor File Translator,
is available through
this link or
via anonymous
ftp.
- A PostScript version of the guide on Optimizing
Open Inventor Applications,
is available through
this link or
via anonymous
ftp.