[news.eclipse.gef3d] Re: Best strategy for updating all figures?

[Jens v.P. <developer@xxxxxxxxx>]

GLU supports spheres, and the OpenGL code (with GLU) is pretty simple, 
as shown here:

	http://lifeofaprogrammergeek.blogspot.com/2008/08/rendering-sphere-in-opengl.html

I'm 

planning to add spheres in the next weeks, maybe some more shapes.

But you are right, we have to think about how to define a surface of a 
sphere. Hehe... projecting onto the sphere would be cool, but I'm 
afraid that wouldn't be too easy. There is another tutorial oin how to 
create a textured sphere w/o GLU:

	http://www.swiftless.com/tutorials/opengl/sphere.html

I'm going to investigate in that direction a little bit further. 
Actually, the biggest problem would probably be legal issues. We had 
already spheres and other shapes in GEF3D, but I had to delete them for 
legal reasons for getting GEF3D IP approved.

Cheers

Jens