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glFrontFace
glFrontFace
: define front- and back-facing polygons.
C Specification
void glFrontFace(
GLenum mode)
Parameters
mode
Specifies the orientation of front-facing polygons. GL_CW and
GL_CCW are accepted. The initial value is GL_CCW.
Description
In a scene composed entirely of opaque closed surfaces, back-facing polygons are never
visible. Eliminating these invisible polygons has the obvious benefit of speeding up the
rendering of the image. To enable and disable elimination of back-facing polygons, call
glEnable and glDisable with argument GL_CULL_FACE.
The projection of a polygon to window coordinates is said to have clockwise winding if an
imaginary object following the path from its first vertex, its second vertex, and so on, to
its last vertex, and finally back to its first vertex, moves in a clockwise direction about
the interior of the polygon. The polygon’s winding is said to be counterclockwise if the
imaginary object following the same path moves in a counterclockwise direction about
the interior of the polygon. glFrontFace specifies whether polygons with clockwise
winding in window coordinates, or counterclockwise winding in window coordinates, are
taken to be front-facing. Passing GL_CCW to mode selects counterclockwise polygons as
front-facing; GL_CW selects clockwise polygons as front-facing. By default,
counterclockwise polygons are taken to be front-facing.
Errors
•
GL_INVALID_ENUM is generated if mode is not an accepted value.
•
GL_INVALID_OPERATION is generated if glFrontFace is executed between the
execution of glBegin and the corresponding execution of glEnd.
Associated Gets
glGet with argument GL_FRONT_FACE
See Also
glCullFace,
glLightModel
Summary of Contents for c3700 - Workstation
Page 9: ...Chapter 1 9 1 A ...
Page 18: ...A glArrayElement Chapter 1 18 glNormalPointer glTexCoordPointer glVertexPointer ...
Page 19: ...Chapter 2 19 2 B ...
Page 40: ...B gluBuild2DMipmaps Chapter 2 40 ...
Page 41: ...Chapter 3 41 3 C ...
Page 49: ...C glXChooseVisual Chapter 3 49 See Also glXCreateContext glXGetConfig ...
Page 73: ...C glCopyPixels Chapter 3 73 glReadBuffer glReadPixels glStencilFunc ...
Page 84: ...C glCopyTexSubImage2D Chapter 3 84 glTexParameter glTexSubImage1D glTexSubImage2D ...
Page 93: ...Chapter 4 93 4 D ...
Page 99: ...D glDeleteTextures Chapter 4 99 glTexImage1D glTexImage2D glTexParameter ...
Page 127: ...Chapter 5 127 5 E ...
Page 148: ...E glEvalPoint Chapter 5 148 ...
Page 149: ...Chapter 6 149 6 F ...
Page 161: ...Chapter 7 161 7 G ...
Page 164: ...G glGenTextures Chapter 7 164 glTexImage1D glTexImage2D glTexParameter ...
Page 207: ...G glGetPointer Chapter 7 207 glSelectBuffer glTexCoordPointer glVertexPointer ...
Page 225: ...Chapter 8 225 8 H ...
Page 228: ...H glHint Chapter 8 228 ...
Page 229: ...Chapter 9 229 9 I ...
Page 248: ...I glIsTexture Chapter 9 248 ...
Page 249: ...Chapter 10 249 10 L ...
Page 256: ...L glLightModel Chapter 10 256 See Also glLight glMaterial ...
Page 271: ...Chapter 11 271 11 M ...
Page 291: ...Chapter 12 291 12 N ...
Page 312: ...N gluNurbsSurface Chapter 12 312 ...
Page 313: ...Chapter 13 313 13 O ...
Page 317: ...Chapter 14 317 14 P ...
Page 360: ...P glPushName Chapter 14 360 See Also glInitNames glLoadName glRenderMode glSelectBuffer ...
Page 362: ...P gluPwlCurve Chapter 14 362 ...
Page 363: ...Chapter 15 363 15 Q ...
Page 372: ...Q glXQueryVersion Chapter 15 372 glXQueryVersion ...
Page 373: ...Chapter 16 373 16 R ...
Page 390: ...R glRotate Chapter 16 390 ...
Page 391: ...Chapter 17 391 17 S ...
Page 397: ...S glScissor Chapter 17 397 See Also glEnable glViewport ...
Page 409: ...Chapter 18 409 18 T ...
Page 448: ...T glTexImage3DEXT Chapter 18 448 glTexGen glTexImage1D glTexImage2D glTexParameter ...
Page 457: ...T glTexSubImage1D Chapter 18 457 glTexImage2D glTexParameter glTexSubImage2D ...
Page 465: ...T glTranslate Chapter 18 465 See Also glMatrixMode glMultMatrix glPushMatrix glScale ...
Page 466: ...T glTranslate Chapter 18 466 ...
Page 467: ...Chapter 19 467 19 U ...
Page 469: ...U gluUnProject Chapter 19 469 See Also glGet gluProject ...
Page 471: ...U glXUseXFont Chapter 19 471 See Also glBitmap glXMakeCurrent ...
Page 472: ...U glXUseXFont Chapter 19 472 ...
Page 473: ...Chapter 20 473 20 V ...
Page 482: ...V glVisibilityBufferhp Chapter 20 482 ...
Page 483: ...Chapter 21 483 21 W ...
Page 486: ...W glXWaitX Chapter 21 486 ...