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AMCP 1998: Advanced Multimedia Content Processing pp 161–176Cite as

InvenTcl: A Fast Prototyping Environment for 3D Graphics and Multimedia Applications

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This paper describes InvenTcl which is an interpretive version of Open Inventor, a 3D graphics toolkit. To create InvenTcl, the Open Inventor toolkit is “wrapped” inside the interpreter Tcl/Tk and [incr Tcl]. To wrap InvenTcl the Open Inventor header files are parsed to create [incr Tcl] interpretive objects with the same names as objects in Open Inventor. Additionally, window event management, non-objects and object bindings are included and managed by InvenTcl. The advantages of InvenTcl include: script-able and direct manipulation of 3D objects in an Open Inventor scene, easy prototyping of 3D graphics and animation, low bandwidth communication of 3D scenes and animations (using scripts), and easy integration of 3D graphics with other media for fast prototyping of multimedia applications.

Sidney Fels was a visiting researcher at ATR MI&C Research Laboratories when this research was done.

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  1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada

    Sidney Fels

  2. ATR MI&C Research Laboratories, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-02, Japan

    Kenji Mase

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering Department of Information Systems Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

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Fels, S., Mase, K. (1999). InvenTcl: A Fast Prototyping Environment for 3D Graphics and Multimedia Applications. In: Nishio, S., Kishino, F. (eds) Advanced Multimedia Content Processing. AMCP 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1554. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48962-2_12

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