Am Sunday 14 June 2009 23:08:56 schrieben Sie:
Sven Panne schrieb:
Nevertheless, with OpenGL 3.1 GLU is dead,
Are you sure?
glu is mainly for converting an arbitrary polygon into triangles. This is an art and so obviously wasn't put into hardware or driver.
Well, I *am* sure. ;-) Let's look at the various parts of GLU: * Generation of mipmaps: Part of core OpenGL 3.1, so it's redundant nowadays. * Matrix manipulation: Not part of OpenGL itself anymore, should probably be in a separate math library, which would then offer *much* more. * Tessellation: Should reside in a separate, more flexible tessellation library. Has a horrible interface in GLU. * Quadrics: Immediate mode and display lists are not part of OpenGL anymore, consequently these quadrics are deprecated. * NURBS: Basically the same as for tessellation. In a nutshell: Some parts of GLU are useless/deprecated nowadays, other parts should be in separate, much more flexible and nicer libraries. Unless I missed something, the last GLU spec (1.3) is from 1998, which is another indication for its usefulness. But I won't remove it from my current OpenGL package, because in its current state this package represents "old school" OpenGL, anyway... Cheers, S.