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+1  Q: 

an in built function to draw a torus in opengl glut

hey, i am using opengl and i was wondering if there was an inbuilt function in opengl to draw a torus? Thanks i advance

+1  A: 

I think you're looking for glutSolidTorus.

3lectrologos  2009-12-27 12:39:30
that was exactly what i was looking for
yuneek  2009-12-27 13:08:37
+1  A: 

3lectrologos is right that a torus is available in Glut.

But if you only need the torus, you can just grab the code from here (from line 687).

freeglut is a completely OpenSourced alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library.

epatel  2009-12-27 12:47:24
thanks you for the help sir, let me try it.
yuneek  2009-12-27 13:07:56

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