Oleg,
I altered your script to show the flat sides more
clearly. I added the following line to your paint verb
below gsinit.
glShadeModel GL_FLAT
This resulted in more distinct sides, but may not have been
what you wanted. I think you can see the result by holding
down the right-arrow or up-arrow key and watching the
lighting change. I see the most dramatic changes with the
right- or left-arrow key movements from the original
position.
I noticed a peculiar feature in the graphic that may
be a reult of your model, or may be a "feature" of the J
openGL. The feature is that the light shading changes
dramatically as soon as you press any scene movement key,
such as j, x, or arrow. Whereas initially the forward end of
the cylinder is brightly lit, as soon as any key is pressed
(while the graphic window is in focus), the same end is NOT
lit any longer.
Btw, I ran your graphic by embedding it in the file
/Users/brian/j601/system/examples/graphics/opengl/demo/glviews.ijs
. This is done by replacing the 2 characters "XX" in the
file by your code.
(B=)
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Oleg Kobchenko wrote:
+ Well, I don't see how OpenGL automatically creates
+ normals. In all examples with light and n-gons (strips, quads, etc.)
+ the normals are explicit. Thus, we can have the utility
+ verb to optionally automatically generate the normals,
+ as shown below. Though I don't like the result very much:
+ there's definitely some normals, but are they correct?
+
+ P=: +. (4%:_1)*^:(<8) 1 NB. regular planar octagon
+ P0=: P,._1
+ P1=: P,. 1
+ Q=: _3]\,P0,.P1 NB. quad strip (last not added to look inside)
+
+ GS_AMBIENT=: 0.15
+ GS_DIFFUSE=: 0.7
+ GS_SPECULAR=: 0.7
+ GS_ROTXYZ=: 25 40 0
+
+ paint=: 3 : 0
+ gsinit GS_LIGHT
+ gsdrawviewbox RED
+ gsdrawpolygon P0;'';RED
+ gsdrawpolygon P1;'';BLUE
+ gsdrawquadstrip Q;'';GREEN
+ gsfini''
+ )
+
+ NB. ========================= TBD in jzopenglutil.ijs ===
+ gsnormal=: (% +/&.(*:"_))@(+/)
+ gsquadnormal=: (2,:4)&(gsnormal;._3)
+
+ gsdrawquadstrip=: 3 : 0 "2
+ 'v n c'=. y
+ v=. gscol3 v
+ if. 0=#n do. n=. gsquadnormal v end.
+ if. #c do. gscolor c end.
+ glBegin GL_QUAD_STRIP
+ for_i. i.&.-: #v do.
+ if. i>0 do. glNormal (-:i-2){n end.
+ glVertex (i+i.2){v
+ end.
+ glEnd''
+ )
+
+
+ ----- Original Message ----
+ From: "Miller, Raul D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ To: Programming forum <[email protected]>
+ Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 8:08:39 PM
+ Subject: RE: [Jprogramming] opengl geometry meshes?
+
+
+ Oleg Kobchenko wrote:
+ > Here's the simplest I could think of.
+ > But no triangles here: a polygon and a quad strip.
+
+ Thanks.
+
+ I'll try to look at it in more depth when I have the
+ chance to figure out jzopenglutil.
+
+ > The problem here is light/normals: it looks like
+ > OpenGL cannot automatically figure out normals (?).
+
+ That's odd. Normally it does.
+
+ And they're extremely simple to figure out --
+ take the (3d) cross product of the two vectors
+ leading out from any corner of a face, and the
+ result is normal to that face. Divide by the
+ length and you have the normal.
+
+ I was under the impression that opengl did
+ this by default unless you configured it
+ such that you're providing normals manually.
+
+ --
+ Raul
+
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