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Patch release Open Inventor 10.11.1 is now available.
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Some highlights of Open Inventor 10.11 include:
- Fast blending of volume data sets with different dimensions!
- "undefined" voxel support for volume rendering.
- Cloud rendering without a GPU (Mesa 3D support).

The Open Inventor 10.11 Release Candidate (RC) is now available.
The RC is "feature complete" and has passed our QA testing.  It is provided now to allow customers to test with their applications and provide feedback before the production release.

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Patch release Open Inventor 10.10.3 is now available.
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It is common for volume data to contain significant regions where data is uniform, for example, in undefined regions. Thermo Scientific™ Open Inventor™ allows uniform tiles to be stored in memory as a single value to optimize memory usage. This optimization enables much more high-resolution data...

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Some highlights of Open Inventor 10.10 include:
- Use a volume data set directly as a HeightField property.
- GPU memory optimization for constant value (e.g. undefined) volume data tiles (bricks).

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Our Open Inventor R&D team in Bordeaux is looking for a Senior Software Engineer experienced in 3D scientific data visualization.

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The Open Inventor 10.10 Release Candidate (RC) is now available.
The RC is "feature complete" and has passed our QA testing.  It is provided now to allow customers to test with their applications and provide feedback before the production release.

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The latest patch release, Open Inventor 10.9.4 is now available.
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The latest patch release, Open Inventor 10.9.1 is now available.
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Some highlights of Open Inventor 10.9 include:
- New Platform: Red Hat (RHEL) 8 / gcc 8
- RemoteViz runtime licensing change

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A number of Siemens Healthineers’ products such as syngo.via use the high-level 3D scene objects provided by the Open Inventor Toolkit library as a basis for their 3D scene renderings. Examples of these are visualizations of clip geometries and heart animations. Additionally, Siemens...

The latest patch release, Open Inventor 10.8.3 is now available.
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The latest patch release, Open Inventor 10.8.2 is now available.
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The Open Inventor 10.9 RC is now available.
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Note1: This is not a "Beta" release. The RC is feature complete and fully tested. It will be released "as is" unless there are problem reports from customers.  
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Height field rendering is a powerful feature implemented for efficiently rendering large “horizon” surfaces in E&P seismic interpretation applications.  The height field representation is memory efficient and stored as a multi-resolution hierarchy (like volume data) to maintain interactive rend...

As part of our on-going project to improve the user interface for Open Inventor Toolkit features, version 10.8 introduces automatic highlighting for draggers and manipulators, starting with the widely used SoTabBoxDragger.  Previously users had to know, for example that each “face” of the drag...

Thermo Fisher Scientific has joined the OSDU Forum, an international forum of oil and gas operators, cloud services companies, suppliers of applications, and other standards organizations working together to develop an open data platform that brings together seismic, well, and reservoir data...

PerGeos Software is a robust platform that enables E&P engineers to understand the quality and performance of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Thermo Scientific™ PerGeos Software is the industry’s first digital rock solution designed to help geoscientists rapidly interpret digital rock imagery so that E...

In addition to supporting extremely large data sets, Open Inventor Toolkit provides many visualization features specifically designed to enhance E&P applications.  Two key features for seismic interpretation are Height Field Rendering for horizons and Uniform Grid Clipping for volumes.

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Visualization is critical for the creation and validation of reservoir models and for interpreting the resulting data sets from the simulator. Visualization of large reservoir models is already challenging and some simulators are now capable of handling more than a billion cells.  How will we...

Developed by geoscientists and software developers, Geoteric's AI Seismic Interpretation is fully integrated within their workflow. Steered by three core elements in their mission statement; science, people, and technology, Geoteric designed an AI-driven Seismic Interpretation platform with the...

The SceneOrbiter is a new viewer component class that combines the convenient "examiner viewer" camera interaction with a dramatic improvement in the user experience. Unlike previous Thermo Scientific™ Open Inventor™ Toolkit examiner viewers, interacting with the Scene Orbiter is modeless.

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The SoViewingCube class is a new user interface component that provides visual feedback about the current orientation of the scene camera and also gives you a convenient way to select predefined camera orientations.

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RemoteViz is an image streaming technology for interactive web-based visualization applications that run on a server and display in the user's web browser. We have just released a new Getting Started Guide for RemoteViz that walks through creating a basic visualization service and a client web...

Thermo Scientific™ Open Inventor™ Toolkit allows you to visualize and interact with multi-modal 3D medical data sets for orthodontic and surgical planning. Open Inventor Toolkit can co-visualize 3D data sets from intraoral, face, and CBCT scanners to create a digital representation of the...

The Open Inventor RemoteViz extension enables software developers to easily create zero-client, web-based applications and services with advanced 3D visualization. Unlike remote desktop solutions that require installation of a client application on the user's local machine, web-based...

To create an excellent user experience in your 3D application, it is critical to provide fast and intuitive tools for interacting with objects in the scene. Open Inventor Toolkit provides a powerful “picking” tool (SoRayPickAction) that adds a glowing halo effect so users can quickly find the obj...

Scientific and industrial data have grown too big to efficiently process and visualize using current desktop solution. Due to this, cloud computing has become a feasible solution for tackling the challenge of big data. However, how to efficiently visualize big data sets remotely, such as the Oil...

Mobilemed Solutions provides the powerful medical software, ATON3D®, for educational and clinical use. Loading and rendering DICOM data with very high quality, the software allows users to obtain the best results for advanced analysis and study cases.

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HOLOSURGICAL has created ARAI™, an advanced surgical navigation guidance platform that combines 3D visualization, data analytics, and machine learning to improve patient outcomes, reduce operation time, and decrease surgical complications.

HOLOSURGICAL chose Thermo Scientific™ Open Inventor™...

- Open Inventor 10.8
- OSDU announcement
- TabBoxDragger highlighting
- HeightField vertex shifting
- Life Cycle changes

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The latest patch release, Open Inventor 10.8.1 is now available.
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Some highlights of Open Inventor 10.8 include
- SoBillboard performance enhancement
- SoTabBoxDragger interactive highlighting
- Height values can be used directly to color a HeightField
- Shader function for shifting...

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The latest patch release, Open Inventor 10.7.3 is now available.
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- SEG 2020
- GeoTeric: Software for 3D seismic interpretation
- PerGeos: Software for Digital Rock Analysis
- Feature Highlight: Horizon Volume Probe for 3D seismic interpretation
- Research: Very Large Reservoir Project

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The latest patch release, Open Inventor 10.7.2 is now available.
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The latest patch release, Open Inventor 10.6.2 is now available.
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Some highlights of Open Inventor 10.7 include
- C++17 Compatibility
- Performance enhancement for SoSwitch
- SoViewingCube 'upAxis' field

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The latest patch release, Open Inventor 10.6.2 is now available.
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• Multi-modal volume rendering for dental applications
• OMNICxi Software adds 3D visualization
• New RemoteViz "Getting Started" Guide
• Feature highlights: ViewingCube and SceneOrbiter

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The latest patch release, Open Inventor 106.1 is now available.
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RemoteViz is our image streaming toolkit technology. RemoteViz enables true web-based 2D/3D visualization applications that run on a server and display in the user's web browser. As images are rendered by the visualization software, RemoteViz streams them to the browser, using video encoding...

Open Inventor version 10 introduced a new render engine re-designed to take full advantage of modern graphics hardware and rendering effects. In this on-demand webcast, we highlight some of the features added since Open Inventor 10. 

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OMNICxi software, combined with the DXR3xi Raman imaging microscope, allows customers to create and analyze chemical images of their samples. Thanks to a joint development between the Spectroscopy team and the Open Inventor toolkit team, OMNICxi software v2.0 now supports 3D visualization.  Details.

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Some highlights of Open Inventor 10.6 include
- New SoColorHighlightRenderAction
- SoOffscreenRenderArea can generate RGBA images
- RemoteViz: ServiceListener now supports HTTP requests

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The latest patch release, Open Inventor 10.5.3 is now available.
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The latest patch release, Open Inventor 10.5.3 is now available.
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• New customer spotlights: Holosurgical and MobileMed
• New feature in-depth: Halo highlighting
• Update: What's new in RemoteViz for Cloud rendering

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The latest patch release, Open Inventor 10.5.2 is now available.

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The Open Inventor™ RemoteViz extension enables software developers to easily create zero-client web-based applications and services with advanced 3D visualization.  Unlike remote desktop solutions that require installing a client application on the user's local machine, web-based applications...

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The latest patch release, Open Inventor 10.5.1, is now available.

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Some highlights of Open Inventor 10.5 include:

• Core: New "Halo" highlighting render action
• Core: New "Viewing Cube" user interface widget
• Core: New "Scene Orbiter" mode-less viewer component
• RemoteViz : Send binary...

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The latest patch release, Open Inventor 10.4.1, is now available.

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Some highlights of Open Inventor 10.4 include:
Core Open Inventor : New SoColorMask node
MeshVizXLM : GPU accelerated picking for mesh geometry
RemoteViz : New examples for authentication and load balancing

Researchers at Radboud University Medical Center recently published a new paper entitled "Virtual setup in orthodontics: planning and evaluation".

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical accuracy of virtual orthodontic setups using a new CBCT-based approach.  The data of this study...

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Some highlights of Open Inventor 10.3 include:
Core Open Inventor | Continuing improvements in rendering speed!
RemoteViz | Added support for VP9 video encoding!
Official support for Ubuntu Linux 18.04 with gcc 7.

Open Inventor 10.2 continues to build and improve on the great foundation provided by our new Open Inventor 10 rendering engine!  Rendering is even faster now and, as usual, optimization is done automatically with no change to your application code or the structure of your scene graph.  New r...

With the strong foundation of Open Inventor Toolkit 10.0 in place and providing our flagship visualization toolkit with a next-generation rendering engine, the development team has been busy improving performance and building new visualization and image processing tools to enhance your...

Earlier this month, HoloSurgical Inc announced the first human surgical procedure utilizing an augmented reality and artificial intelligence (ARAI) based surgical navigation system.
As a digital platform, ARAI combines 3D visualization, data analytics, and machine learning to improve outcomes...

Thermo Scientific™ Open Inventor™ Toolkit version 10 has been released.

The result of years of internal work, this release puts the powerful features of Open Inventor Toolkit 9.9 on top of a completely new, modern rendering engine.

The Open Inventor Toolkit 10 architecture will allow us to support...

At RSNA 2018, the Open Inventor Toolkit team will preview a new feature for visualizing Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) fiber tracts.  Available in 2019, the GPU-based feature provides high performance even for a very large number of fibers.  Lighting, physically-based shading and ambient o...

Dental imaging applications can now provide their users with fully automatic generation of high quality panoramic views directly from the patient’s CBCT image data.  Advanced image processing algorithms in Open Inventor Toolkit automatically detect the dental arch, compute a surface fitted to th...

The University of Connecticut recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for their Innovation Partnership Building (IPB). The IPB includes the UConn Thermo Fisher Scientific Center for Advanced Microscopy and Materials Analysis (CAMMA), one of the world’s foremost facilities for electron m...

A new image filter in Open Inventor Toolkit 9.9/10 generates an "unfolded" volume by resampling the input volume along the surface of a polygonal mesh defined by the application. Unfolding is a powerful technique that is used, for example, to create a dental "panoramic" volume from a CBCT scan...

The polygon simplification algorithm (SoShapeSimplifyAction) has been completely rewritten for Open Inventor Toolkit 9.9/10. The new implementation is more than ten times faster, reliably producing well-formed triangles without cracks or holes. Simplification can be applied to any Open Inventor...

There is a new feature release of the Thermo Scientific^™ Open Inventor^™ Toolkit. (Available to all customers with active maintenance.) Some of its powerful new features are highlighted in this newsletter, but please browse the full Release Notes for additional information about new image...

Open Inventor Toolkit makes it easy for your application to implement large reservoir probing

Open Inventor Toolkit makes it easy for your application to implement large reservoir probingOpen Inventor Toolkit makes it easy for your application to implement large reservoir probingOpen Inventor...

At this year's SEG, the Open Inventor Team will be presenting the latest features and capabilities of Thermo Scientific™ Open Inventor™ Toolkit.
Open Inventor Toolkit is a commercial software library providing 3D graphics, image processing and visualization for Oil & Gas and Mining programs.
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Open Inventor Toolkit makes it easy for your application to segment and visualize vessels                                                                                                                                                                                                              �...

In this gallery, you will find commercial application examples, scientific publications, articles, papers, posters, presentations or videos that show Open Inventor Toolkit usage in Medical, Dental, Oil & Gas, and Engineering...

To better serve our customers and their needs, from today, the number of patch releases and the release rhythm will be increased. 

This will allow us to respond even more quickly to your requirements.  It will also be easier for you to match a patch release with your product release cycle...

Open Inventor Toolkit makes it easy for your application to get the voxel position and value under the...

Today, the Virtual Reality market is expending exponentially with the release of new devices, the raise of humongous investments and the creation of many VR companies. New ideas, developments, innovations are taking part of this trend, and the Open Inventor software development toolkit is...

Classical techniques for rendering medical image data in 3D have been around since the 1980s, including multi-planar reformatting (MPR), maximum intensity projection (MIP) and direct volume rendering (DVR) with color and opacity mapping. These techniques are highly useful but based on very...