Some Built-In OpenGL Shapes

Solid Sphere, Wire Sphere          Examples

glutSolidSphere(double radius, int slices, int stacks)

glutWireSphere(double radius, int slices, int stacks)

     Renders a sphere centered at the modeling coordinates origin of the specified radius.

     The sphere is subdivided around the Z axis into slices and along the Z axis into stacks.

radius is the radius of the sphere

slices is  the number of subdivisions around the Z axis (similar to lines of longitude)

stacks is the number of subdivisions along the Z axis (similar to lines of latitude)

Solid Cube, Wire Cube                Examples

glutSolidCube (double size)

glutWireCube(double size)

    Render a solid or wireframe. The cube is centered at the modeling coordinates origin with

    sides of length size.

    Render a solid or wireframe torus (doughnut) respectively centered at the modeling coordinates origin whose axis is aligned with the Z axis.

innerRadius is the inner radius of the torous

outerRadius is the outer radius of the torus

nsides is the number of sides for each radial section

rings is the number of radial divisions for the torus

Solid Teapot, Wire Teapot        Examples

glutSolidTeapot(double size)              

glutWireTeapot(double size)

    Render a solid or wireframe tetrahedron respectively centered at the modeling coordinates origin with a radius square root of 3.