About This Book

• What This Book Contains
• How to Use This Book
• What You Should Know Before Reading This Book
• Conventions Used in This Book
• Key to Scene Graph Diagrams
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• Acknowledgments

The Inventor Mentor introduces graphics programmers and application developers to Open Inventor, an object-oriented 3D toolkit. Open Inventor is a library of objects and methods used for interactive 3D graphics.

For the sake of brevity, the examples included in this book are in C++.