2 Example Walk Through

The source code for glxdino can be found in Appendix A. I will refer to the code repeatedly throughout this section. Figure 1 shows a screen snapshot of glxdino.

• 2.1 Initialization
  • 2.1.1 Choosing a Visual and Colormap
  • 2.1.2 Creating a Rendering Context
  • 2.1.3 Setting Up a Window
• 2.2 The Dinosaur Model
  • 2.2.1 The GLU Tessellator
  • 2.2.2 Hierarchical Display Lists
  • 2.2.3 Back-face Culling
• 2.3 Lighting
  • 2.3.1 Types of Lighting
  • 2.3.2 Lighting in the Example
• 2.4 View Selection
• 2.5 Event Dispatching
  • 2.5.1 Expose Handling
  • 2.5.2 Window Resizing
  • 2.5.3 Handling Input
  • 2.5.4 Quitting