Open Inventor® by Mercury is built around industry-standard specifications with openness in mind and is designed for maximum portability and system independence. Its flexible architecture ensures its perfect adaptability to existing and upcoming environments. Added to its proven reliability, this makes Open Inventor® by Mercury a solution which optimizes development costs with long-term investment protection.
Platform-independent code:
The Open Inventor cross-platform framework allows developers to design scalable and interactive 3D applications across the whole range of UNIX, Linux and Microsoft Windows systems. Resulting applications can be 100% source code compatible and only a recompilation is necessary to make it run on other platforms.
Advanced support of leading open standards:
Through its native advanced support of OpenGL® and ISO standard VRML97, Open Inventor-based applications are automatically compatible Furthermore, Open Inventor has been designed to natively support leading development environments, such as Microsoft MFC library and Trolltech Qt graphic application development framework, through dedicated sets of classes which provides for example easy and elegant ways to integrate Open Inventor graphic components such as viewers, editors … within Qt Designer.
Skills and commitment of a strong professional team:
Proven itself to be faster than any other Open Inventor®-like implementation, Open Inventor® by Mercury is not only a product, its also a team. Developed, maintained and supported by a large and highly qualified professional team serving several thousand developers and hundred of thousands of end-users through run-times of professional applications, the product is evolving on a regular basis with a major yearly release and several bi-monthly sub releases in between, both enhancing the product in answering specific customer requests and providing fixes for potential issues. Mercury has been working for over 20 years in 3D visualization and has acquired unique knowledge and expertise, and has invested years in tuning and enhancing the core Open Inventor® and making it evolve with the latest hardware features available.
