Section 1.3. GLU
1.3. GLUGLU is the OpenGL Utility Library. It's an ARB-approved library that is available with most OpenGL implementations. It provides support for higher-order operations not directly available in OpenGL, such as control over camera position and orientation, higher-order curves and surfaces, multipolygonal primitives such as cylinders and spheres, projection to and from window-coordinate space, and polygon tessellation. GLU function names have the form glu*(). The function to create a view transform, for example, is called gluLookAt(). The current version of GLU is 1.3. OpenGL® Distilled covers only a few common GLU routines. For complete information on GLU, download the GLU specification, The OpenGL Graphics System Utility Library, from the OpenGL Web site, www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/index.html. Also, OpenGL® Reference Manual is a good reference for GLU. |
