The Inventor Mentor: Programming Object-Oriented 3D Graphics with Open Inventor™, Release 2

Josie Wernecke
Open Inventor Architecture Group

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wernecke, Josie.
The Inventor mentor : programming Object-oriented 3D graphics
with Open Inventor, release 2 / Josie Wernecke.
p.  cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-201-62495-8
1. Object-oriented programming (Computer science) 2. Open
Inventor.  3. Computer graphics.  I. Title.
QA76.64.W48  1994
006.6'6--dc20
93-41976
CIP

Copyright © 1994 by Silicon Graphics, Inc.

ISBN 0-201-62495-8

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Author: Josie Wernecke

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Project Editor: Joanne Clapp Fullagar

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