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NAME

6       gluPerspective - set up a perspective projection matrix
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C SPECIFICATION

9       void gluPerspective(GLdouble fovy, GLdouble aspect, GLdouble zNear,
10                           GLdouble zFar);
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PARAMETERS

13       fovy
14           Specifies the field of view angle, in degrees, in the y direction.
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17           Specifies the aspect ratio that determines the field of view in the
18           x direction. The aspect ratio is the ratio of x (width) to y
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21       zNear
22           Specifies the distance from the viewer to the near clipping plane
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26           Specifies the distance from the viewer to the far clipping plane
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DESCRIPTION

30       gluPerspective specifies a viewing frustum into the world coordinate
31       system. In general, the aspect ratio in gluPerspective should match the
32       aspect ratio of the associated viewport. For example, aspect = 2.0
33       means the viewer's angle of view is twice as wide in x as it is in y.
34       If the viewport is twice as wide as it is tall, it displays the image
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37       The matrix generated by gluPerspective is multipled by the current
38       matrix, just as if glMultMatrix() were called with the generated
39       matrix. To load the perspective matrix onto the current matrix stack
40       instead, precede the call to gluPerspective with a call to
41       glLoadIdentity().
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45       f = cotangent ⁡ fovy 2 The generated matrix is
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47       f aspect 0 0 0 0 f 0 0 0 0 zFar + zNear zNear - zFar 2 × zFar × zNear
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NOTES

51       Depth buffer precision is affected by the values specified for zNear
52       and zFar. The greater the ratio of zFar to zNear is, the less effective
53       the depth buffer will be at distinguishing between surfaces that are
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59       approaches infinity as zNear approaches 0, zNear must never be set to
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SEE ALSO

63       gluOrtho2D(), glFrustum(), glLoadIdentity(), glMultMatrix()
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67       under the SGI Free Software B License. For details, see
68       http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/.
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