Open Inventor [3] is a toolkit provided by SGI for (among other things) creating
and manipulating 3D polygonal objects. Inventor object files can be read by DIVERSE
software and can be combined in 3D virtual environments with objects
created by the Glyph ToolBox.
ivUtilities is a collection of commands created by SAVG for quickly making
short snippets of Inventor ASCII files. The commands can be combined through
UNIX pipes to form Inventor based visualizations. The idea is to follow the traditional
UNIX philosophy of small tools that combine to form a result greater than
the sum of the parts. Think of these commands as Shell Script Visualization.
ivUtilities might be useful for rapid prototyping, quick experiments, creating
simple demos or any purpose where getting things displayed easily is important.
The commands are intended to be easy to learn and leverage off of already known