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Drawing Primitives: Woo, Neider Et Al., Chapter 2

The document discusses various OpenGL drawing primitives and functions. It describes how to clear the color buffer, set colors, force drawing completion, handle window resizing, and draw points, lines, triangles, quads, and polygons using functions like glBegin, glEnd, glVertex, and glColor. Examples are given for drawing a filled polygon and a circle using line loops. The document also covers setting the point size, line width, and line stippling pattern.

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Drawing Primitives: Woo, Neider Et Al., Chapter 2

The document discusses various OpenGL drawing primitives and functions. It describes how to clear the color buffer, set colors, force drawing completion, handle window resizing, and draw points, lines, triangles, quads, and polygons using functions like glBegin, glEnd, glVertex, and glColor. Examples are given for drawing a filled polygon and a circle using line loops. The document also covers setting the point size, line width, and line stippling pattern.

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Drawing Primitives

Woo, Neider et Al., Chapter 2


Clearing
Pixels are stored in bitplanes

glClearColor (red, green, blue, alpha)


Sets the color used to (redm, green, blue, alpha)

glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT)
Performs the clear operation on one or more
buffers at the same time
Colors in RGBA

glColor3f (0.0, 0.0, 0.0) Black


glColor3f (1.0, 0.0, 0.0) Red
glColor3f (1.0, 1.0, 0.0) Yellow
glColor3f (0.0, 1.0, 0.0) Green
glColor3f (0.0, 1.0, 1.0) Cyan
glColor3f (0.0, 0.0, 1.0) Blue
glColor3f (1.0, 0.0, 1.0) Magenta
glColor3f (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) White

glColor3f (0.5, 0.5, 0.5) Gray


Forcing Completion of Drawing

Multiple commands may be gathered in a


buffer before execution (efficiency)

glFlush () : Forces execution before the


gathering is complete

glFinish () : Forces all commands to be


completed. The function does not return until
then
Reshape Callback
• Called when the user changes the size of
the window
• For simple 2D drawings:

void reshape(int w, int h)


{
glViewport (0, 0, (GLsizei) w, (GLsizei) h);
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
glOrtho2D(0.0, (GLdouble) w, 0.0, (GLdouble) h);
}
Drawing Primitives
glBegin (mode);
commands…
glEnd;

Mode can be for example:


GL_POINTS: Individual points
GL_LINES: Pairs of vertices used to draw
segments
GL_TRIANGLES: Triple of vertices used to draw
triangles
GL_QUADS: Quandruples of vertices used
to draw quadrilaterals
GL_POLYGON: Boundary of a polygon
…
Drawing Primitives
Commands between glBegin() and glEnd():
glVertex*(): Specifies vertex coordinates
glColor*(): Specifies color
… More

Example:
glBegin(GL_POLYGON);
glColor3f (1.0, 0.0, 0.0);
glVertex3f (0.25, 0.25, 0.0);
glVertex3f (0.75, 0.25, 0.0);
glColor3f (0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
glVertex3f (0.75, 0.75, 0.0);
glVertex3f (0.25, 0.75, 0.0);
glEnd();
Drawing Primitives
Example:

#define PI 3.14159
GLint CirclePoints = 100;
glBegin(GL_LINE_LOOP);
for(i=0; i<CirclePoints; ++i) {
angle = 2 * PI * i / CirclePoints;
glVertex2f (cos(angle), sin(angle));
}
glEnd();

Note: Obviously, not the best way to draw a


circle…
Lines and Points Features
glPointSize (size): Specifies the size of the point
(default is 1.0)

glLineWidthSize (width): Specifies the width of the


line (default is 1.0)

When antialiasing is disabled, values are rounded


to the nearest integer

glLineStipple (factor, pattern)


glEnable(GL_LINE_STIPPLE) : Used to draw
dashed and dotted lines. Pattern is stretched by
factor

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