if you are talking about the same method as in Alice3d or even VRML (I think) where you can make a 2D drawing from one side and have it fill the object in by generating the shape if the object was rotated on the y (or any other axis) by small increments then AFAIK there is no easy way to do this with OpenGL.

OpenGL deals with vertecies and polygons. The method of drawing rotate by a small angle and draw again, as you said, would result in slow performance.

When creating your 2D object i can see how you would be able to generate the data if your 2D drawing dealt with verts too (at some level) but with a totally random picture i'm guessing that would be extremely hard.

HTH

Quote:Original post by speiestaaim
I can find out the vertices, and use the polygon method in opengl to draw it. what after that?

Yeah if you have the vertecies and triangles/polygons you can draw it with OpenGL. Have a look at NeHe for openGL tutorials. You have a few options for drawing, Immediate mode (glVertex...) or vertex arrays (glVertexPointer...) which you can use with VBOs. All of it should be covered in the nehe tutorials.

What do u want to do after that?

Quote:Original post by speiestaaim
the vertices will give a 2-d object, how to revolve it into a 3-d object aroud z axis?

thanks for ur previous replies.

You will have to manually generate the vertecies from your 2d drawing. You would need to do the vertex rotations manually and then generate the triangles/polygons from the generated vertecies. Generating the triangles/polygons will depend on how you store your 2D data, you may be just able to connect the last angle and the new angle if you have some sort of edge/line or poly structure to the 2D drawing. If you draw your 2d object just as lines then the generation would be pretty easy (just gen 2 triangles for the line segment for 2 rotation points to form a quad). If not then it will be quite a bit more difficult, you would need to do some sort of edge detection to generate the triangles (the way this is implemented again depends on how you store your 2d data).

I suggest starting off with just generating the 3d vertecies with the rotations and drawing them as points before worring about generating triangles for it.

HTH