Open Inventor® from Mercury is the most widely used object-oriented, cross-platform 3D graphics API for C++ and Java developers. The new Open Inventor takes advantage of technological advances to better meet the needs of our customers. With a full compliment of robust components for rapid application development, Open Inventor has become an even more powerful graphic display system for real-time 3D visualization.

Open Inventor allows developers to increase productivity by reducing time to market and optimizing their development costs and resources. Open Inventor gives the developer a choice of development language, either C++ of Java, and also provides the flexibility of running the developed application on many different platforms. This cross-platform capability makes Open Inventor a fast, flexible, and high performing API for developing interactive, object-oriented 3D applications.

Here are some of the advantages and benefit of using Open Inventor by Mercury

Sample Application Areas of Open Inventor

Open Inventor by Mercury continues to deliver fast and flexible object oriented 3D graphics tools to serve the application developers marketplace. Open Inventor dramatically simplifies the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of scalable and interactive 3D applications. Some of the specific markets Mercury has targeted with the new release of Open Inventor are Oil & Gas and Geosciences, Visual Simulation, CAD/CAM/CAE and 3D Immersive VR covering all those markets. In Malaysian context, we at My-Partners have been distributing Open Inventor to major academic institution for education and training purposes. Below are some sample of application areas for Open Inventor; 

• Business Graphics
• Cartography
• Chemistry
• Engineering
• Visual Reality and VRML
• AEC and Simulations
• Mechanical CAE and CAD
• Architectural Design
• Medical and Scientific Imaging
• Geophysical Science
• Scientific Data Visualization
• Animation