InvenTcl: interpretive 3D graphics using open inventor and Tcl/[incr Tcl]

Authors:
Sidney Fels;Silvio Esser;Armin Bruderlin;Kenji Mase
Affiliations:
ATR MI&C Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan;ATR MI&C Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan;ATR MI&C Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan;ATR MI&C Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan
Venue:
TCLTK'97 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop 1997 - Volume 5
Year:
1997

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Abstract

Open Inventor is an object oriented 3D graphics toolkit written in C++. Because Open Inventor is written in C++, typical user code development consists of a program/compile/debug iteration cycle. This paper introduces InvenTcl which is an interpretive version of Open Inventor using Tcl/Tk [4] and [incr Tcl] [3]. The advantages of InvenTcl include: script-able and direct manipulation of 3D objects in an Open Inventor scene, easy prototyping of 3D graphics and animation, and low-bandwidth communication of 3D scenes and animations (using scripts).