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/*!
\page books Books Related to Open Inventor / Coin
Here is a list of some of the better books for people that invested
in software development with Open Inventor. If you have suggestions
for additional books that ought to go on this list, please feel
free to tell us about it.
\section mentorbook The Inventor Mentor
(subtitle "Programming Object-Oriented 3D Graphics with Open Inventor")
This is an excellently written, detailed, tutorial-style
introductory book for Open Inventor that takes you through all the
fundamental design principles applied in the Open Inventor API,
richly illustrated and with numerous, well documented code examples.
The Inventor Mentor is getting a bit old, but do not let that put
you off. It is as valid today as it was the day it was written, and
we heartily recommend this book for anyone learning to use
Open Inventor.
ISBN 0-201-62495-8. You might also be able to find this book as a
pdf file online, but we recommend having it in print.
\section toolmakerbook The Inventor Toolmaker
This book explains how Open Inventor was designed for being extended
by the users, and walks you through how to develop your own
components that work with all aspects of Coin.
ISBN 0-201-62493-1. You might also be able to find this book as a
pdf file online, but we recommend having it in print.
\section vrml2refbook The Annotated VRML2.0 Reference Manual
This book covers the VRML97 (aka VRML 2.0) standard, which Coin has
implemented with its Inventor/VRMLnodes/* classes, which is an
extension made beyond the Open Inventor V2.1 API.
The VRML97 format has some significant differences from the Inventor
and VRML1 formats, so it is a useful book if you want to use that
part of Coin.
ISBN 0-201-41974-2. You will find the specification documents for
VRML97 online at <http://www.web3d.org/>.
\section openglbook The Open GL Programming Manual
This is the bible when it comes to OpenGL programming and is
relevant for Open Inventor extenders that develop new nodes that
implement or affect Open Inventor OpenGL rendering. There are many
editions of this book since it is updated whenever new versions of
OpenGL are standardized and comes out, so check that you have
identified the latest edition if you order one.
\section oirefbook The Open Inventor C++ Reference Manual
Although this book is directly relevant for Open Inventor, it does
only cover the Open Inventor 2.1 API. This information is more or
less also covered in the online doxygen doc for Coin, where you have
it hyperlinked, and can also be generated offline from the Coin
sources to have locally, so we do not think this book is very useful
to have in print. We mention it anyway since it is an official
documentation book for Open Inventor.
ISBN 0-201-62491-5.
*/
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