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gluCylinder()
NAME
  gluCylinder - draw a cylinder

SYNOPSIS
  void gluCylinder(
	  GLUquadric* quad,
	  GLdouble base,
	  GLdouble top,
	  GLdouble height,
	  GLint slices,
	  GLint stacks );

PARAMETERS
  quad
      Specifies the quadrics object (created with gluNewQuadric()).

  base
      Specifies the radius of the cylinder at z = 0.

  top Specifies the radius of the cylinder at z = height.

  height
      Specifies the height of the cylinder.

  slices
      Specifies the number of subdivisions around the z axis.

  stacks
      Specifies the number of subdivisions along the z axis.

DESCRIPTION
  gluCylinder() draws a cylinder oriented along the z axis. The base of the
  cylinder is placed at z = 0, and the top at z = height. Like a sphere, a
  cylinder is subdivided around the z axis into slices, and along the z axis
  into stacks.

  Note that if top is set to 0.0, this routine generates a cone.

  If the orientation is set to GLU_OUTSIDE (with gluQuadricOrientation()),
  then any generated normals point away from the z axis. Otherwise, they
  point toward the z axis.

  If texturing is turned on (with gluQuadricTexture()), then texture
  coordinates are generated so that t ranges linearly from 0.0 at z = 0 to
  1.0 at z = height, and s ranges from 0.0 at the +y axis, to 0.25 at the +x
  axis, to 0.5 at the -y axis, to 0.75 at the -x axis, and back to 1.0 at the
  +y axis.

SEE ALSO
  gluDisk(3), gluNewQuadric(3), gluPartialDisk(3), gluQuadricTexture(3),
  gluSphere(3)

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