
<refentry id="gluBeginCurve">
    <refmeta>
        <refmetainfo>
            <copyright>
                <year>1991-2006</year>
                <holder>Silicon Graphics, Inc.</holder>
            </copyright>
        </refmetainfo>
        <refentrytitle>gluBeginCurve</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>
    </refmeta>
    <refnamediv>
        <refname>gluBeginCurve</refname>
        <refpurpose>delimit a NURBS curve definition</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>
        <funcsynopsis>
            <funcprototype>
                <funcdef>void <function>gluBeginCurve</function></funcdef>
                <paramdef>GLUnurbs* <parameter>nurb</parameter></paramdef>
            </funcprototype>
        </funcsynopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
    <refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>
        <funcsynopsis>
            <funcprototype>
                <funcdef>void <function>gluEndCurve</function></funcdef>
                <paramdef>GLUnurbs* <parameter>nurb</parameter></paramdef>
            </funcprototype>
        </funcsynopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
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    <refsect1 id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>
        <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>nurb</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    Specifies the NURBS object (created with <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gluNewNurbsRenderer</refentrytitle></citerefentry>).
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="description"><title>Description</title>
        <para>
            Use <function>gluBeginCurve</function> to mark the beginning of a NURBS 
            curve definition.
            After 
            calling <function>gluBeginCurve</function>, make one or more calls to
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gluNurbsCurve</refentrytitle></citerefentry> to define the attributes of the curve.
            Exactly one of the calls to <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gluNurbsCurve</refentrytitle></citerefentry> must have
            a curve type of <constant>GLU_MAP1_VERTEX_3</constant> or <constant>GLU_MAP1_VERTEX_4</constant>.
            To mark the end of the NURBS curve definition, call <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gluEndCurve</refentrytitle></citerefentry>.
        </para>
        <para>
            GL evaluators are used to render the NURBS curve as a series of line
            segments.
            Evaluator state is preserved during rendering
            with <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glPushAttrib</refentrytitle></citerefentry>(<constant>GLU_EVAL_BIT</constant>) and 
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glPopAttrib</refentrytitle></citerefentry>().  
            See the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glPushAttrib</refentrytitle></citerefentry> reference page for details on exactly what state
            these calls preserve.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="example"><title>Example</title>
        <para>
            The following commands render a textured NURBS curve with normals;
            texture coordinates and normals are also specified as NURBS curves:
            <programlisting>
gluBeginCurve(nobj);
   gluNurbsCurve(nobj, ..., GL_MAP1_TEXTURE_COORD_2);
   gluNurbsCurve(nobj, ..., GL_MAP1_NORMAL);
   gluNurbsCurve(nobj, ..., GL_MAP1_VERTEX_4);
gluEndCurve(nobj);
            </programlisting>
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>
        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gluBeginSurface</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gluBeginTrim</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gluNewNurbsRenderer</refentrytitle></citerefentry>, 
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gluNurbsCurve</refentrytitle></citerefentry>, 
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glPopAttrib</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glPushAttrib</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>
        <para>
            Copyright <trademark class="copyright"></trademark> 1991-2006
            Silicon Graphics, Inc. This document is licensed under the SGI
            Free Software B License. For details, see
            <ulink url="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/">http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/</ulink>.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
</refentry>
