Coin3D is a high-level 3D graphics toolkit for developing cross-platform real-time 3D visualization and visual simulation software. Coin3D is portable over a wide range of platforms: any UNIX / Linux / *BSD platform, all Microsoft Windows operating systems, and Mac OS X. Coin3D is built on OpenGL and uses scene graph data structures to render 3D graphics in real-time. Basic import, rendering, and interaction with a 3D object can be implemented in just a few lines of code, and programmer efficiency is greatly increased compared with programming directly with OpenGL. OpenGL code and Coin3D code can co-exist in the same application, which makes gradual migration from OpenGL to Coin3D possible. Coin3D is fully compatible with SGI Open Inventor 2.1, the de facto standard for 3D visualization and visual simulation software in the scientific and engineering community. Additional features in Coin3D include VRML97 support, 3D sound, 3D textures, and parallel rendering on multiple processors. 
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