how to draw a 3d ellipse!

OpenGL OpenGL: Basic Coding
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I know draw 2d ellipse,but I don’t know how to draw 3d ellipse

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How do you want to draw it exatly? I’m used to thinking of an ellipse as a 2-d scheme! But for any 3-d geometric surface rendering I think you should look at meshes and nurbs. A link I found on google which is from the red book is this: opengl & nurbs . I think it should take care of your questions (the problem would be to define the points now.) Good luck!

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Hi !

If you do mean a true 2D ellipse in 3D world, then you just use glRotate/glScale/glTranslate to transform it in 3D.

If you mean an ellipsoid, have a peek at the glu source code (mesa or the SGI sample implementation), there you can see how it is done.

Just do a sphere and use glScale to transform it to an ellipsoid.

Mikael