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Some notes on the new polygon tessellator in GLU version 1.2

GLU version 1.2 introduces a new polygon tessellator. The following routines have become obsolete and should not be
used for new development based on GLU version 1.2 and later.
Obsolete Routine Replace with

gluBeginPolygon gluTessBeginPolygon; gluTessBeginContour

gluEndPolygon gluTessEndContour; gluTessEndPolygon
gluNextContour gluTessEndContour; gluTessBeginContour

The following routines are new in GLU version 1.2:

gluGetTessProperty
gluTessBeginContour
gluTessBeginPolygon
gluTessEndContour
gluTessEndPolygon
gluTessNormal
gluTessProperty

Some routines have had an argument or return-value changed from ``GLUtriangulatorObj *'' to ``GLUtesselator *''.
Since the GLU header file for version 1.2 has a typedef from GLUtriangulatorObj to GLUtesselator, source code should
not need any immediate changes. However, at some time the source code should be moved to the GLU version 1.2
name.

gluBeginPolygon
gluDeleteTess
gluEndPolygon
gluNewTess
gluNextContour
gluTessCallback
gluTessVertex

One routine has been expanded to support more valid values for the which argument:

gluTessCallback

To distinguish what version of the GLU library you are using at compile time, check for the following pre-processor
symbols:

none defined version 1.0

GLU_VERSION_1_1 version 1.1 or later
GLU_VERSION_1_2 version 1.2 or later

Digital Open3D supports the following versions of the GLU library:

Digital Open3D Version GLU Version Supported

Before Version 2.6 version 1.0

Version 2.6 version 1.1
Version 3.0 and later version 1.2

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Last Edited: Fri Dec 6 11:18:03 EST 1996 by AFV

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