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Python OpenInventor wrappers?

Peter Schneider-Kamp nowonder at nowonder.de
Tue Aug 22 11:26:15 EDT 2000 
Bjoern Giesler wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> since SGI has recently open-sourced their OpenInventor 3D toolkit
> (http://oss.sgi.com), it's become very interesting for me (previously I
> thought I'd have to use VTK, which isn't optimal for my purpose). Does
> anyone have Python wrappers for OpenInventor, or fragments of such?

Quoting from a recent posting to c.l.py:

> Subject:      First stab at an OpenInventor wrapper
> Date:         18 Aug 2000 10:48:47 +0200
> From:         Ole Martin Bjoerndalen <olemb at stud.cs.uit.no>
>
> I have started writing a Python wrapper around OpenInventor using
> SWIG. It is going really well. So far I have only wrapped the classes
> and methods that I need to write "Hello Cone", a small example program
> which opens a window with a red cone in it. I will add more soon.
> 
> You can have a look at it here:
> 
>   http://www.cs.uit.no/~olemb/software/pyinventor/
> 
> There is source code and a screenshot of the running Hello Cone
> script. You need OpenInventor, Mesa/OpenGL, Motif, SWIG and of course
> Python to compile and run it.
> 
> Comments are welcome.
> 
> 
> -- 
>    Ole Martin Bjoerndalen
>  http://www.cs.uit.no/~olemb/ 
>     olemb at stud.cs.uit.no

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