Spend a little more time with "The Red Book" on OpenGL, and it will make sense to you. It takes a couple of slight shifts in your way of thinking, but one you change gears, it won't seem so unfriendly.
That said, the "slight shifts" are easier for those of us who used homogeneous coordinates, orientable manifolds, combinatorial topology and other similar mathematical ideas before;) "The Red Book" is at http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~unreal/theredbook/ and for OpenGL ES, is not out of date, even though that free copy is for OpenGL 1.1. One minor nuisance: the Red Book examples assume the use of OpenGL commands using vertex lists built by bracketing drawing primitives with glBegin() and glEnd(), but OpenGL ES does not support these. This is a good idea why it is handy to learn OpenGL on your desktop first before restricting yourself to the subset available in OpenGL ES... On Jan 19, 6:58 pm, Brill Pappin <[email protected]> wrote: > That explains a lot about why things didn't make sense to me... I kept trying > to tell it to simply draw points and connect them! > > It's actually those vertices that are giving me trouble... they are just not > friendly to an Application programmer :) > > - Brill Pappin > > On 2011-01-19, at 8:24 PM, Indicator Veritatis wrote: > > > OpenGL ES, the standard not just for Android but for all mobile phones > > to date, only supports drawing triangles, not polygons. To get a > > polygon, you have to triangulate it first, then pass an array of > > vertices based on that triangulation. > > > Triangulation turns out to be a subtle combinatorial problem. > > > On Jan 17, 11:59 am, Brill Pappin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks Robert. I'll take that advice. > > >> In particular what we want are some extensions to the framework(s) that > >> make > >> supporting segmented maps easier for us to work with. Most frameworks have > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
