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GLUCYLINDER()                                                    GLUCYLINDER()


NAME

       gluCylinder - draw a cylinder


C SPECIFICATION

       void gluCylinder( GLUquadric* quad,
                         GLdouble base,
                         GLdouble top,
                         GLdouble height,
                         GLint slices,
                         GLint stacks )


PARAMETERS

       quad    Specifies the quadrics object (created with gluNewQuadric).

       base    Specifies the radius of the cylinder at z = 0.

       top     Specifies the radius of the cylinder at z = height.

       height  Specifies the height of the cylinder.

       slices  Specifies the number of subdivisions around the z axis.

       stacks  Specifies the number of subdivisions along the z axis.


DESCRIPTION

       gluCylinder draws a cylinder oriented along the z axis. The base of the
       cylinder is placed at z = 0, and the top at z = height. Like a sphere,
       a cylinder is subdivided around the z axis into slices, and along the z
       axis into stacks.

       Note that if top is set to 0.0, this routine generates a cone.

       If the orientation is set to GLU_OUTSIDE (with gluQuadricOrientation),
       then any generated normals point away from the z axis. Otherwise, they
       point toward the z axis.

       If texturing is turned on (with gluQuadricTexture), then texture
       coordinates are generated so that t ranges linearly from 0.0 at z = 0
       to 1.0 at z = height, and s ranges from 0.0 at the +y axis, to 0.25 at
       the +x axis, to 0.5 at the -y axis, to 0.75 at the -x axis, and back to
       1.0 at the +y axis.


SEE ALSO

       gluDisk, gluNewQuadric, gluPartialDisk, gluQuadricTexture, gluSphere

                                                                 GLUCYLINDER()

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