Accessing Triangles when using glut function

[Janaka Prabhash]

Hi,

I want to change the shape of the sphere when I use,
glutSolidSphere()

which is available in glut.

So, how can I access the triangles in this object?

Are there any existing deformable object libraries in opengl community?

Thanks in advance,

Janaka Prabhash

[todayman]

How do you want to deform the sphere? You can certainly modify the modelview matrix before drawing the sphere (scale it, rotate it).

[Optik]

The only flat polygon you will get is by using glutSolidSphere(radius,2,2)
which means 2 stacks and 2 slices(this is a bare minimum condition).

with this call you will get a rhombus.

however if you want something close to a triangle you might want to try with 3 stacks and 2 slices or vice versa, in which case the result will be a tetrahedron.

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