Education/Projects/ProcessingForTheWeb/sphereDetail

Summary

This is a function written for Education/Projects/ProcessingForTheWeb. This function controls the detail used to render a 3D sphere. The default resolution is 30, which creates a fairly detailed sphere definition with vertices every 360/30 = 12 degrees. This function only needs to be called once as the setting stay active until it is called again. View official Reference

Examples

void setup()
{
   size(500,500,OPENGL);
}
void draw()
{
   background(128);
   sphereDetail(15,15);
   sphere(1);
}

Syntax

	Description
sphereDetail(res);
sphereDetail(ures, vres);

Parameters

	Description
res	int: number of segments (minimum of 3) used per full circle revolution
ures	int: number of segments used longitudinally per full circle revolution
vres	int: number of segments used latitudinally from top to bottom

Returns

nothing

Bugs

Refer to the reference of each function for a specific bug report.

Bug Description	Fixed?(Date)

Tests

This test requires a web browser with WebGL enabled. If needed download Mozilla Nightly ~ Minefield

Test	Location
All get() functionality	sphereDetail(15,15)