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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://bitbucket.org/Coin3D/coin/wiki/Home|title=Coin3D / Coin / wiki / Home — Bitbucket|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 theused basisin for several actively developed projects: the open-source [http://www.openxip.org eXtensible Imaging Platform (Siemens Corporate Research)], and the freemiumMeVisLab (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.