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GLPOINTSIZE()							 GLPOINTSIZE()

NAME
       glPointSize - specify the diameter of rasterized	points

C SPECIFICATION
       void glPointSize( GLfloat size )

       delim $$

PARAMETERS
       size  Specifies	the  diameter of rasterized points.  The initial value
	     is	1.

DESCRIPTION
       glPointSize specifies the rasterized diameter of	both aliased  and  an-
       tialiased  points.   Using  a point size	other than 1 has different ef-
       fects, depending	on whether point antialiasing is enabled.   To	enable
       and  disable point antialiasing,	call glEnable and glDisable with argu-
       ment GL_POINT_SMOOTH. Point antialiasing	is initially disabled.

       If point	antialiasing is	disabled, the actual  size  is	determined  by
       rounding	 the  supplied	size to	the nearest integer.  (If the rounding
       results in the value 0, it is as	if the point size  were	 1.)   If  the
       rounded	size is	odd, then the center point ($ x	$, $ y $) of the pixel
       fragment	that represents	the point is computed as

	    ( $	|_ ~ x sub w ~ _| ~+~ .5 $, $ |_ ~ y sub w ~ _|	~+~ .5 $)

       where $w$ subscripts indicate window coordinates.  All pixels that  lie
       within  the  square grid	of the rounded size centered at	($ x $,	$ y $)
       make up the fragment.  If the size is even, the center point is

	    ( $	|_ ~ x sub w ~+~ .5 ~ _|$, $ |_	~ y sub	w ~+~ .5 ~ _| $)

       and the rasterized fragment's centers are the half-integer window coor-
       dinates within the square of the	rounded	size centered at ($ x $,  $  y
       $).  All	pixel fragments	produced in rasterizing	a nonantialiased point
       are assigned the	same associated	data, that of the vertex corresponding
       to the point.

       If  antialiasing	 is enabled, then point	rasterization produces a frag-
       ment for	each pixel square that intersects the region lying within  the
       circle  having diameter equal to	the current point size and centered at
       the point's ($ x	sub w $, $ y sub w $).	The coverage  value  for  each
       fragment	 is the	window coordinate area of the intersection of the cir-
       cular region with the corresponding pixel square.  This value is	 saved
       and  used  in  the  final rasterization step.  The data associated with
       each fragment is	the data associated with the point being rasterized.

       Not all sizes are supported when	point antialiasing is enabled.	If  an
       unsupported  size  is  requested,  the  nearest supported size is used.
       Only size 1 is guaranteed to be supported; others depend	on the	imple-
       mentation.   To query the range of supported sizes and the size differ-
       ence between supported sizes within the range, call  glGet  with	 argu-
       ments GL_POINT_SIZE_RANGE and GL_POINT_SIZE_GRANULARITY.

NOTES
       The  point  size	 specified  by	glPointSize  is	 always	 returned when
       GL_POINT_SIZE is	queried.  Clamping and rounding	for  aliased  and  an-
       tialiased points	have no	effect on the specified	value.

       A non-antialiased point size may	be clamped to an implementation-depen-
       dent  maximum.	Although this maximum cannot be	queried, it must be no
       less than the maximum value for	antialiased  points,  rounded  to  the
       nearest integer value.

ERRORS
       GL_INVALID_VALUE	is generated if	size is	less than or equal to 0.

       GL_INVALID_OPERATION  is	 generated  if glPointSize is executed between
       the execution of	glBegin	and the	corresponding execution	of glEnd.

ASSOCIATED GETS
       glGet with argument GL_POINT_SIZE
       glGet with argument GL_POINT_SIZE_RANGE
       glGet with argument GL_POINT_SIZE_GRANULARITY
       glIsEnabled with	argument GL_POINT_SMOOTH

SEE ALSO
       glEnable

								 GLPOINTSIZE()

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