About This Guide
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Related Reading
Reference pages for Cosmo 3D are obtained by pointing your web browser at:
• For IRIX: /usr/share/Optimizer/doc/developer
• For Windows: <inst_dir>/doc/developer
Where inst_dir is the directory where Optimizer was installed. The default installation
location is <system_drive>:/Progral Files/Silicon Graphics/Optimizer.
Who Should Read This Guide
This guide is written for developers of OpenGL Optimizer applications. Developers use
Cosmo 3D scene graph nodes and actions to develop OpenGL Optimizer applications.
What You Should Know Before Reading This Guide
This guide is written with the assumption that the reader is experienced with C++.
Suggestions for Further Reading
For information on Open Inventor, see the following:
• Wernecke, Josie, The Inventor Mentor. Reading, Mass.:Addison Wesley 1994
• Wernecke, Josie, The Inventor Toolmaker. Reading, Mass.:Addison Wesley 1994
• Open Inventor Architecture Group, Open Inventor C++ Reference Manual. Reading,
Mass.:Addison Wesley 1994
• OpenGL Architecture Review Board, M. Woo, J. Neider, and Tom Davis, OpenGL
Programming Guide, Second Edition, 1997. (Also known as “the Red book.”)
For information on OpenGL Optimizer; see the following SGI manual:
OpenGL Optimizer Programmer’s Guide: An Open API for Large-Model Visualization
(document number 007-2852-002).
