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Manual Reference Pages  - GLUSPHERE (3G)

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gluSphere - draw a sphere

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void gluSphere( GLUquadric* quad,

              GLdouble radius,
              GLint slices,
              GLint stacks )

quad	Specifies the quadrics object (created with  gluNewQuadric).
radius	Specifies the radius of the sphere.
slices	Specifies the number of subdivisions around the z axis (similar to lines of longitude).
stacks	Specifies the number of subdivisions along the z axis (similar to lines of latitude).

 gluSphere draws a sphere of the given radius centered around the origin. The sphere is subdivided around the z axis into slices and along the z axis into stacks (similar to lines of longitude and latitude).

If the orientation is set to  GLU_OUTSIDE (with  gluQuadricOrientation), then any normals generated point away from the center of the sphere. Otherwise, they point toward the center of the sphere.

If texturing is turned on (with  gluQuadricTexture), then texture coordinates are generated so that t ranges from 0.0 at z = - radius to 1.0 at z = radius (t increases linearly along longitudinal lines), and s ranges from 0.0 at the +y axis, to 0.25 at the +x axis, to 0.5 at the -y axis, to 0.75 at the -x axis, and back to 1.0 at the +y axis.

 gluCylinder(3G),  gluDisk(3G),  gluNewQuadric(3G),  gluPartialDisk(3G),  gluQuadricOrientation(3G),  gluQuadricTexture(3G)

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