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authorAleksandar Samardzic <asamardzic@matf.bg.ac.yu>2010-05-11 20:00:19 +0200
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+Coin is a high-level 3D graphics toolkit for developing cross-platform
+real-time 3D visualization and visual simulation software.
+
+Coin is built on OpenGL and uses scene graph data structures to render
+3D graphics in real-time. Basic import, rendering, and interaction with
+a 3D object can be implemented in just a few lines of code, and
+programmer efficiency is greatly increased compared with programming
+directly with OpenGL. OpenGL code and Coin code can co-exist in the
+same application, which makes gradual migration from OpenGL to Coin
+possible.
+
+Coin is fully compatible with SGI Open Inventor 2.1, the de facto
+standard for 3D visualization and visual simulation software in the
+scientific and engineering community. Additional features in Coin
+include VRML97 support, 3D sound, 3D textures, and parallel rendering on
+multiple processors.