Geometry & PFDU Primitives

Performer geometry (including normals, colors, and texture coordinates) is stored in pfGeoSets. pfGeodes are the leaf nodes of a scene graph which contain pfGeoSets.

The PFDU library includes utility functions to create pfGeoSets for various primitive shapes:

pfdNewCube
pfdNewSphere
pfdNewCylinder
pfdNewPipe
pfdNewCone
pfdNewPyramid
pfdNewArrow
pfdNewDoubleArrow
pfdNewCircle
pfdNewRing

The geometry returned by these functions can be added to a pfGeode using the addGSet method.

Last modified 21 July 1997.

Dave Pape, pape@evl.uic.edu