A new release of the Open Inventor Toolkit is available to customers under maintenance.
Highlights of the new release include:

Thermo Fisher Scientific has joined the OSDU Forum, an international forum of oil and gas operators, cloud services companies, suppliers of applications, and other standards organizations working together to develop an open data platform that brings together seismic, well, and reservoir data. With our Open Inventor Toolkit technologies, we will add significant value to complement the OSDU Data Platform with large volume visualization, specialized visualization features for E&P applications and technology for efficient interactive image streaming from the Cloud.

As part of our on-going project to improve the user interface for Open Inventor Toolkit features, version 10.8 introduces automatic highlighting for draggers and manipulators, starting with the widely used SoTabBoxDragger.  Previously users had to know, for example that each “face” of the dragger is selectable.  Now the dragger behaves like a modern “flat” user interface: selectable parts of the dragger highlight when touched.

Height field rendering is a powerful feature implemented for efficiently rendering large “horizon” surfaces in E&P seismic interpretation applications.  The height field representation is memory efficient and stored as a multi-resolution hierarchy (like volume data) to maintain interactive rendering even with many horizons.  By definition, height values are stored on an implicit regular grid.  Open Inventor Toolkit 10.8 introduces a shader function that allows the application to shift the grid vertices on the GPU with no performance penalty.