Two companies are still battling it out to win business around Silicon Graphics Inc’s OpenGL graphics libraries and Open Inventor tool kit. At Siggraph, Portable Graphics Inc, the Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp subsidiary, launched a new version of Open Inventor for Windows NT that runs on Alpha-based RISC machines. It is part of a […]
Two companies are still battling it out to win business around Silicon Graphics Inc’s OpenGL graphics libraries and Open Inventor tool kit. At Siggraph, Portable Graphics Inc, the Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp subsidiary, launched a new version of Open Inventor for Windows NT that runs on Alpha-based RISC machines. It is part of a new release, also for iAPX-86 that includes ActiveX support, the V-Realm three-dimensional Web browser and additonal data and image files. Portable Graphics also announced new versions of OpenGL, Open Inventor, and the NPGL GL-to-OpenGL conversion tool for Hewlett-Packard Co, Sun Microsystems Inc Solaris (Creator 3D), Digital Equipment Corp iAPX-86 and Alpha (PowerStorm). Meanwhile, Template Graphics Softwar e said it had won a distribution agreement from SunSoft Inc for OpenGL and Open Inventor on Sparc and UltraSparc boxes.
