SG APIs
Scene Graph APIs
- OpenSceneGraph (www.openscenegraph.org)
- For scientific visualization, virtual reality, GIS (geographic information systems)
- NVIDIA SceniX
- Optimized for shader support
- Support for interactive ray tracing
- http://www.nvidia.com/object/scenix‐home.html
- Torque 3D
- Open source game engine
- For Windows and browser‐based games
- http://www.garagegames.com/products/torque‐3d
- Ogre3D
- Open source rendering engine
- For Windows, Linux, OSX, Android, iOS, Javascript
- http://www.ogre3d.org/
Commonly offered functionality
- Resource management
- Content I/O (geometry, textures, materials, animation sequences)
- Memory management
- High‐level scene representation
- Graph data structure
- Rendering
- Optimized for efficiency (e.g., minimize OpenGL state changes)