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==Recent history==
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After many years of being solely available under proprietary licensing from TGS, now [[FEI Company|FEI]], Inventor has been released under the [[LGPL]] [[open source license]], in August 2000, which is available from SGI.▼
At approximately the same time, an API clone library called [[Coin3D]] was released by the company SIM (Systems in Motion). SIM was later acquired by the Kongsberg group and re-branded as [[Kongsberg SIM]]. The Coin library had been written in a [[clean room design|clean room]] fashion from scratch, sharing no code with the original SGI Inventor library, but implementing the same API for compatibility reasons. Kongsberg ended development of Coin3D in 2011<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/coin3d/coin/wiki|title=Coin3D / Coin / wiki / Home — Github|website=[[GitHub]] |date=30 March 2020|publisher=}}</ref> and released the code under the BSD 3-clause license.▼
The open source version from SGI is not currently maintained and SGI has not shown any commitment to do further development of the library. However, the open source release is used in MeVisLab (MeVis Medical Solutions AG and Fraunhofer MEVIS) and development on it continues.<ref>[http://www.mevislab.de MeVisLab]</ref>▼
Thermo Scientific Open Inventor is still thriving, under active development and has added numerous improvements to the original Inventor API specifically for [[medical imaging]], [[medical image computing]], 3D [[reflection seismology]], and [[petroleum reservoir]] modeling.▼
The Open Inventor API is still commonly used for a wide range of scientific and engineering visualization systems around the world, having proven itself well designed for effective development of complex 3D application software.▼
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▲After many years of being solely available under proprietary licensing from TGS, now [[FEI Company|FEI]], Inventor has been released under the [[LGPL]] [[open source license]], in August 2000, which is available from SGI.
▲At approximately the same time, an API clone library called [[Coin3D]] was released by the company SIM (Systems in Motion). SIM was later acquired by the Kongsberg group and re-branded as [[Kongsberg SIM]]. The Coin library had been written in a [[clean room design|clean room]] fashion from scratch, sharing no code with the original SGI Inventor library, but implementing the same API for compatibility reasons. Kongsberg ended development of Coin3D in 2011<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/coin3d/coin/wiki|title=Coin3D / Coin / wiki / Home — Github|website=[[GitHub]] |date=30 March 2020|publisher=}}</ref> and released the code under the BSD 3-clause license.
▲The open source version from SGI is not currently maintained and SGI has not shown any commitment to do further development of the library. However, the open source release is used in MeVisLab (MeVis Medical Solutions AG and Fraunhofer MEVIS) and development on it continues.<ref>[http://www.mevislab.de MeVisLab]</ref>
▲Thermo Scientific Open Inventor is still thriving, under active development and has added numerous improvements to the original Inventor API specifically for [[medical imaging]], [[medical image computing]], 3D [[reflection seismology]], and [[petroleum reservoir]] modeling.
▲The Open Inventor API is still commonly used for a wide range of scientific and engineering visualization systems around the world, having proven itself well designed for effective development of complex 3D application software.
In 2004, TGS was acquired by [[Mercury Computer Systems]], and in June 2009, the entity became an independent company again called [http://www.vsg3d.com Visualization Sciences Group (VSG)]. In 2012, VSG was acquired by [[FEI Company]]. In 2016, [[FEI Company]] was acquired by [[Thermo Fisher Scientific]] (Materials & Structural Analysis Division), which continues to develop and support [http://www.openinventor.com Open Inventor].
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