GlGeomShapesTester

Author: Sam Buss

GlGeomShapesTester is a program used for testing while developing GlGeomShapes. These are part of a set of programs introducing the use of Modern OpenGL, which are intended to accompany a possible second edition of the book 3D Computer Graphics: A mathematical approach with OpenGL, Cambridge University Press, 2003.

GlGeomShapesTester currently supports testing of spheres, cylinders, cones, tori, cubes, Bezier patches and Utah teapots. It includes a GLSL shader program that graphically shows normals, and a shader program that applies a simple "speckled F" procedural texture map.

GlGeomShapesTester is primarily a testbed for debugging GlGeomShapes code. It also provides sample code of how to use GlGeomShapes objects.

The main software can be downloaded in a zip file from the URL below; other needed code is downloaded from elsewhere on this website:

• GlGeomShapesTester.zip: A zip file, with the main C++ programs GlGeomShapesTester.[cpp,h] source files, and three GLSL files XformShader.glsl, NormalViewer.glsl, and ProcShaderF.glsl.
• The GlGeomBase.[cpp,h], GlGeomSphere.[cpp,h], GlGeomCylinder.[cpp,h], GlGeomCone.[cpp,h], GlGeomTorus.[cpp,h], GlGeomCube.[cpp,h], GlGeomBezier.[cpp,h], and GlGeomTeapot.[cpp,h] source files from the GlGeomShapes package.
• The GlLinearR3.[cpp,h], GlLinearR4.[cpp,h] and MathMisc.h software from the GlLinearMath package.
• The GlShaderMgr.[cpp,h] software from GlShaderMgr package.
• Read the documentation of how to use the GlGeomShapes objects. GlGeomShapesTester.cpp shows examples of using the GlGeomShapes objects, including code for rendering individual parts of GlGeomShapes, such as separate stacks or slices or separate parts of the teapot.

Version 1.4 of GlGeomShapesTester, July 24, 2023.