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gluSphere()
NAME
  gluSphere - draw a sphere

SYNOPSIS
  void gluSphere(
	  GLUquadric* quad,
	  GLdouble radius,
	  GLint slices,
	  GLint stacks );

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

  radius
      Specifies the radius of the sphere.

  slices
      Specifies the number of subdivisions around the z axis (similar to
      lines of longitude).

  stacks
      Specifies the number of subdivisions along the z axis (similar to lines
      of latitude).

DESCRIPTION
  gluSphere() draws a sphere of the given radius centered around the origin.
  The sphere is subdivided around the z axis into slices and along the z axis
  into stacks (similar to lines of longitude and latitude).

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

  If texturing is turned on (with gluQuadricTexture()), then texture
  coordinates are generated so that t ranges from 0.0 at z = -radius to 1.0
  at z = radius (t increases linearly along longitudinal lines), 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
  gluNewQuadric(3), gluCylinder(3), gluDisk(3), gluPartialDisk(3),
  gluQuadricOrientation(3), gluQuadricTexture(3)

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