GLUTESSBEGINPOLYGON(3G) |
|
GLUTESSBEGINPOLYGON(3G) |
NAME
gluTessBeginPolygon - delimit a polygon description
C SPECIFICATION
void
gluTessBeginPolygon( GLUtesselator*
tess,
GLvoid*
data )
delim$$
PARAMETERS
-
tess
-
Specifies the tessellation object (created with gluNewTess).
-
data
-
Specifies a pointer to user polygon data.
DESCRIPTION
gluTessBeginPolygon and
gluTessEndPolygon delimit the definition of a convex, concave or self-intersecting polygon. Within each
gluTessBeginPolygon/
gluTessEndPolygon pair, there must be one or more calls to
gluTessBeginContour/
gluTessEndContour. Within each contour, there are zero or more calls to
gluTessVertex. The vertices specify a closed contour (the last vertex of each contour is automatically linked to the first). See the
gluTessVertex,
gluTessBeginContour, and
gluTessEndContour reference pages for more details.
data is a pointer to a user-defined data structure. If the appropriate callback(s) are specified (see gluTessCallback), then this pointer is returned to the callback function(s). Thus, it is a convenient way to store per-polygon information.
Once gluTessEndPolygon is called, the polygon is tessellated, and the resulting triangles are described through callbacks. See gluTessCallback for descriptions of the callback functions.
EXAMPLE
A quadrilateral with a triangular hole in it can be described as follows:
gluTessBeginPolygon(tobj, NULL);
gluTessBeginContour(tobj);
gluTessVertex(tobj, v1, v1);
gluTessVertex(tobj, v2, v2);
gluTessVertex(tobj, v3, v3);
gluTessVertex(tobj, v4, v4);
gluTessEndContour(tobj);
gluTessBeginContour(tobj);
gluTessVertex(tobj, v5, v5);
gluTessVertex(tobj, v6, v6);
gluTessVertex(tobj, v7, v7);
gluTessEndContour(tobj); gluTessEndPolygon(tobj);
SEE ALSO
gluNewTess(3G), gluTessBeginContour(3G), gluTessVertex(3G), gluTessCallback(3G), gluTessProperty(3G), gluTessNormal(3G), gluTessEndPolygon(3G)