Hmm. Odd. I was just checking in the GLUT header file, and sure enough, there is a glutSolidSphere. I wonder why he included it, unless it was a wrapper for gluSolidSphere.

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"GLU" has custom functions for creating shapes "i.e. spheres, torus, teapot, etc." as well as setting the viewing matrix "gluLookAt (tho, i don''t find this function intuitive at all)".


"GLUT" is for wrapping OpenGL to the O/S as forementioned. i.e. keyboard input, mouse movement, creating a window.


hope this clears things up a little.

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Note also that GLU supports NURBS and quadrics. Hooray!

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>>Odd. I was just checking in the GLUT header file, and sure enough, there is a glutSolidSphere. I wonder why he included it, unless it was a wrapper for gluSolidSphere. <<

yes it is (check the glut source)

to the original poster
- they were referring to either glut, glaux or sdl
glaux is buggy + should never be used
glut is good but personally i prefer sdl www.libsdl.org/ (pretty simple + also handles input + audio + other stuff)