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6.2 Inventor mental ray

  Inventor is a real-time 3D scene viewing technology introduced by  Silicon Graphics. There is a version of mental ray called  ivray that has Inventor support built in. It can be used to read scene files and display and manipulate them in realtime on the screen, and rendering and writing them back to disk. Since  OpenGL and  Inventor do not support custom shaders, very simple shaders are used for the realtime display. Although ivray can be used like a regular mental ray executable, this is not recommended because it is larger and takes slightly longer to start up. ivray is supported for  Silicon Graphics systems only. The following additional  command line options are supported:


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