Visualisation - Open Inventor-based tools

All 3D visualisation in OpendTect is COIN based. COIN is an implementation of the OpenInventor interface sepecification. As usual, the external package (i.e. COIN) is not visible to any object outside this module. This module can be seen as a layer on top of the COIN library. Compliant with the 'DIF' principle (Don't implement the future), the layer only contains those tools that are really used in OpendTect.

The function initODInventorClasses() initialises our own Inventor classes, which are in fact extensions of the COIN library. These classes can be found is SoOD. The 'vis' classes in this module are used in the rest of OpendTect.

In the 3D visualisation world you'll see that it is almost unavoidable that all objects will be managed by a centralised manager. That is DataManager.

The main classes for displaying scene objects are:

• TextureRect, for inlines, crosslines and timeslices.
• RandomTrack, for random lines.
• CubeView, for the volume viewer.
• Marker, for picks.
• HorizonSection, for Horizons.
• Well, for wells.