What standards have been used to develop IRIS Explorer?
Top] IRIS Explorer utilises the Open Inventor, ImageVision and OpenGL libraries. Users need not, in general, be aware of these lower layers unless they wish to create modules that call these libraries directly (i.e. not through the IRIS Explorer API supplied). In these cases, the user will need to acquire appropriate versions of the required library for their host platform. For further information please contact your nearest IRIS Explorer Centre. In the development of IRIS Explorer, NAG has used a variety of GL products supplied by both hardware vendors and software suppliers. The developers always seek to select the underlying Open Inventor and OpenGL system(s) that provide the optimum performance to the end user on as wide a range of graphics cards as possible.
