Re: [Closed REQ 6204]: spheres

[daemon]

You can use the "appearance" prefix to specify properties of objects
in general; to color the surface of something, say a sphere, you'd
use the "material { diffuse R G B }" field, as in

appearance { shading smooth }
{
LIST

{
  appearance { material { diffuse 1 0 0 } }
  SPHERE  .5  -1 -1 -1
}

{
  appearance { material { diffuse 0 1 0 } }
  SPHERE  .5  -1 1 1
}

{
  appearance { material { diffuse 0 0 1 } }
  SPHERE  .5  1 -1 1
}

{
  appearance { material { diffuse 1 1 1 } }
  SPHERE  .5  1 1 -1
}

} # end of list


Note the initial "appearance { shading smooth }", which applies to all
the spheres, and makes them look smooth, hiding their polygonal facets.


There's more about appearances in the geomview manual, or in the
manual page "man 5 oogl".


  Stuart Levy