GLFRONTFACE() GLFRONTFACE() NAME glFrontFace - define front- and back-facing polygons C SPECIFICATION void glFrontFace( GLenum mode ) delim $$ 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 poly- gons are never visible. Eliminating these invisible polygons has the obvi- ous benefit of speeding up the rendering of the image. To enable and dis- able 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 imag- inary 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 GLFRONTFACE()
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