SoAlgebraicCylinder Class Reference
[Shapes]

Algebraic cylinder shape node More...

#include <Inventor/nodes/SoAlgebraicCylinder.h>

Inheritance diagram for SoAlgebraicCylinder:

List of all members.

Public Member Functions
virtual SoType	getTypeId () const
	SoAlgebraicCylinder ()
Static Public Member Functions
static SoType	getClassTypeId ()
Public Attributes
SoSFFloat	height
SoSFFloat	radius
SoSFBool	capped

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Detailed Description

Algebraic cylinder shape node

This node represents a simple capped cylinder centered around the y-axis. By default, the cylinder is centered at (0,0,0) and has a default size of -1 to +1 in all three dimensions. You can use the radius and height fields to create a cylinder with a different size.

The cylinder is transformed by the current cumulative transformation and is drawn with the current lighting model and material.

This node can generally be used in place of the SoCylinder geometric shape node. Unlike the geometric shape nodes, which create triangle geometry to represent their shape, the algebraic shape nodes compute and render their shape on the GPU. Algebraic shapes can also be used with SoMultipleInstance to efficiently render a very large number of shapes.

Please see SoAlgebraicShape for important notes and limitations for algebraic shapes.

FILE FORMAT/DEFAULT

AlgebraicCylinder {

radius	1
height	2
capping	TRUE

}

SEE ALSO

SoAlgebraicShape, SoMultipleInstance, SoCylinder

See related examples:

CustomAlgebraicShape, MultiInstancingAlgebraicShapes

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

SoAlgebraicCylinder::SoAlgebraicCylinder

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Default constructor.

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Member Function Documentation

static SoType SoAlgebraicCylinder::getClassTypeId

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Returns the type identifier for this class.

Reimplemented from SoAlgebraicShape.

virtual SoType SoAlgebraicCylinder::getTypeId

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const [virtual]

Returns the type identifier for this specific instance.

Reimplemented from SoAlgebraicShape.

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Member Data Documentation

SoSFBool SoAlgebraicCylinder::capped

Specifies if cylinder is capped or not.

Default is true.

SoSFFloat SoAlgebraicCylinder::height

Specifies the cylinder's height.

Value must be greater than 0.0. Default is 2.

SoSFFloat SoAlgebraicCylinder::radius

Specifies the cylinder's radius.

Value must be greater than 0.0. Default is 1.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• Inventor/nodes/SoAlgebraicCylinder.h