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Work Text #4: Drawing Primitives and Colors

Learning Outcomes:
a. Familiarize the different drawing primitives in OpenGL
b. Demonstrate OpenGL Colors

Drawing Primitives
Primitives are basic shapes that you can easily draw. It can be a triangle, a square, or even a
single point.

glBegin — delimit the vertices of a primitive or a group of like primitives


Specifies the primitive or primitives that will be created from vertices presented
between glBegin and the subsequent glEnd

GL_POINTS Draws points on screen. Every vertex specified is a point.


GL_LINES Draws lines on screen. Every two vertices specified compose a line.
GL_LINE_STRIP Draws connected lines on screen. Every vertex specified after first
two are connected.
GL_LINE_LOOP Draws connected lines on screen. The last vertex specified is
connected to first vertex.
GL_TRIANGLES Draws triangles on screen. Every three vertices specified compose a
triangle.
GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP Draws connected triangles on screen. Every vertex specified after
first three vertices creates a triangle.
GL_TRIANGLE_FAN Draws connected triangles like GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, except
draws triangles in fan shape.
GL_QUADS Draws quadrilaterals (4 – sided shapes) on screen. Every four
vertices specified compose a quadrilateral.
GL_QUAD_STRIP Draws connected quadrilaterals on screen. Every two vertices
specified after first four compose a connected quadrilateral.
GL_POLYGON Draws a polygon on screen. Polygon can be composed of as many
sides as you want.

OpenGL Color
glColor3f( )
- has three parameters of type float
- The parameters give the red, green, and blue components of the color as numbers in the
range 0.0 to 1.0.
Example: glColor3f(1,0, 0) → display red color

glColor4f( )
- The fourth component, known as alpha
Associated with;
glEnable(GL_BLEND)
glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA)
example:
glColor4f(1, 0, 0, 0.5); # Draw in transparent red, but only if OpenGL
# has been configured to do transparency.
# By default this is the same as drawing in plain red.

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