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Manual Reference Pages  - GLUPERSPECTIVE (3G)

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gluPerspective - set up a perspective projection matrix

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void gluPerspective( GLdouble fovy,

                   GLdouble aspect,
                   GLdouble zNear,
                   GLdouble zFar )

fovy	Specifies the field of view angle, in degrees, in the y direction.
aspect	Specifies the aspect ratio that determines the field of view in the x direction. The aspect ratio is the ratio of x (width) to y (height).
zNear	Specifies the distance from the viewer to the near clipping plane (always positive).
zFar	Specifies the distance from the viewer to the far clipping plane (always positive).

 gluPerspective specifies a viewing frustum into the world coordinate system. In general, the aspect ratio in  gluPerspective should match the aspect ratio of the associated viewport. For example, aspect = 2.0 means the viewer’s angle of view is twice as wide in x as it is in y. If the viewport is twice as wide as it is tall, it displays the image without distortion.

The matrix generated by  gluPerspective is multiplied by the current matrix, just as if glMultMatrix were called with the generated matrix. To load the perspective matrix onto the current matrix stack instead, precede the call to  gluPerspective with a call to glLoadIdentity.

Given f defined as follows:

f = cotangent(fovy / 2) The generated matrix is

( down130matrix ( f / aspect 0 0 0 0 f 0 0 0 0 zFar+zNear / zNear-zFar -1 0 0 2*zFar*zNear / zNear-zFar 0 ) )

Depth buffer precision is affected by the values specified for zNear and zFar. The greater the ratio of zFar to zNear is, the less effective the depth buffer will be at distinguishing between surfaces that are near each other. If

r = zFar / zNear

roughly log ₂r bits of depth buffer precision are lost. Because r approaches infinity as zNear approaches 0, zNear must never be set to 0.

glFrustum(3G), glLoadIdentity(3G), glMultMatrix(3G),  gluOrtho2D(3G)

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