NAME

gluCylinder − draw a cylinder

SYNOPSIS

void gluCylinder(
        GLUquadric∗ quad,
        GLdouble base,
        GLdouble top,
        GLdouble height,
        GLint slices,
        GLint stacks );

PARAMETERS

quad
Specifies the quadrics object (created with gluNewQuadric()). 

baseSpecifies the radius of the cylinder at z = 0. 

topSpecifies the radius of the cylinder at z = height. 

height
Specifies the height of the cylinder.

slices
Specifies the number of subdivisions around the z axis. 

stacks
Specifies the number of subdivisions along the z axis. 

DESCRIPTION

gluCylinder() draws a cylinder oriented along the z axis. The base of the cylinder is placed at z = 0, and the top at z = height. Like a sphere, a cylinder is subdivided around the z axis into slices, and along the z axis into stacks. 

Note that if top is set to 0.0, this routine generates a cone. 

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

If texturing is turned on (with gluQuadricTexture()), then texture coordinates are generated so that t ranges linearly from 0.0 at z = 0 to 1.0 at z = height, 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. 

SEE ALSO

gluDisk(3), gluNewQuadric(3), gluPartialDisk(3), gluQuadricTexture(3), gluSphere(3)