visualisation with freeglut, opengl

[nvinhphu@gmail.com]

Hello everyone,

I am writing a simulation program in C++. The data includes a set of
spheres packing in a 3D box. So, I have the coordinates and the radius
of the spheres.

My question is how to visualize them (as colored solid spheres) using
a easy-to-use C++ library? I've heard of freeglut, opengl but could
not find any concrete tutorial to get me on the topic.

I would deeply appreciate your help. Concrete help with illustrated
code segment is more than great.

For the moment, I do not need realtime visualization. I just need to
do: given a set of particles, visualize them so see what they look
like.

Many thanks.

Vinh Phu

[Victor Bazarov]

Re: visualisation with freeglut, opengl

nvinhphu@gmail. com wrote:

I am writing a simulation program in C++. The data includes a set of
spheres packing in a 3D box. So, I have the coordinates and the radius
of the spheres.
>
My question is how to visualize them (as colored solid spheres) using
a easy-to-use C++ library? I've heard of freeglut, opengl but could
not find any concrete tutorial to get me on the topic.
>
I would deeply appreciate your help. Concrete help with illustrated
code segment is more than great.
>
For the moment, I do not need realtime visualization. I just need to
do: given a set of particles, visualize them so see what they look
like.

I don't think that the fact that your program is written in C++ and that
you want to use a library with C++ (or C) bindings justifies posting
here. Please consider 'comp.graphics. *' hierarchy. OpenGL is there
somewhere, BTW.

V
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[anon]

Re: visualisation with freeglut, opengl

Victor Bazarov wrote:

nvinhphu@gmail. com wrote:

>I am writing a simulation program in C++. The data includes a set of
>spheres packing in a 3D box. So, I have the coordinates and the radius
>of the spheres.
>>
>My question is how to visualize them (as colored solid spheres) using
>a easy-to-use C++ library? I've heard of freeglut, opengl but could
>not find any concrete tutorial to get me on the topic.
>>
>I would deeply appreciate your help. Concrete help with illustrated
>code segment is more than great.
>>
>For the moment, I do not need realtime visualization. I just need to
>do: given a set of particles, visualize them so see what they look
>like.

>
I don't think that the fact that your program is written in C++ and that
you want to use a library with C++ (or C) bindings justifies posting
here. Please consider 'comp.graphics. *' hierarchy. OpenGL is there
somewhere, BTW.

Not only that, but

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=opengl+tutorial&btnG=Google+Search

would give more then enough for some time