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Quadrics

Started by _John_Galt_ Jan 17, 2005 at 2:04 PM 1 replies 850+ views

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Jan 17, 2005 at 2:04 PM

I was wondering what actually is the use of Quadrics in OpenGL.. after all one would not want to draw just cylinders and cones .. and most of the data coming from FILES y would one want the quadric functions?

wendigo23

Jan 17, 2005 at 2:23 PM

Perhaps you are throwing together a quick prototype of something, and just want to use something stupid - like a cone or a cylinder - to represent whatever it is you're prototyping.

fireye

Jan 18, 2005 at 10:41 AM

remember you can texture the quadrics, and you can draw spheres, cones, and (partial) disks.
textured cones seem pretty useful to me (towers in a city for instance).

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