1991-2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc.

gluQuadricOrientation

3G

gluQuadricOrientation

specify inside/outside orientation for quadrics

# C Specification

                    void gluQuadricOrientation
                    GLUquadric* quad
                    GLenum orientation

## Parameters

`quad`

- Specifies the quadrics object (created with

  gluNewQuadric

  ).

`orientation`

- Specifies the desired orientation. Valid values are `GLU_OUTSIDE` and `GLU_INSIDE`.

## Description

`gluQuadricOrientation` specifies what kind of orientation is desired for quadrics rendered with `quad`. The `orientation` values are as follows:

`GLU_OUTSIDE`

- Quadrics are drawn with normals pointing outward (the initial value).

`GLU_INSIDE`

- Quadrics are drawn with normals pointing inward.

Note that the interpretation of outward and inward depends on the quadric being drawn.

## See Also

gluNewQuadric

,

gluQuadricDrawStyle

,

gluQuadricNormals

,

gluQuadricTexture

## Copyright

Copyright 1991-2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc. This document is licensed under the SGI Free Software B License. For details, see http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/.