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NAME
gl_FrontFacing - indicates whether a primitive is front or back facing
DECLARATION
in bool gl_FrontFacing ;.SH "DESCRIPTION" Available only in the fragment language, gl_FrontFacing is an input variable whose value is true if the fragment belongs to a front-facing primitive and false otherwise. The determination of whether a triangle primitive is front-facing is made by examining the sign of the area of the triangle, including a possible reversal of this sign as controlled by glFrontFace. One way to compute this area is: a=12 ∑ j=0 n-1 x w i y w i+1 - x w i+1 y w i where x w i and y w i are the x and y window coordinates of the ith vertex of the n-vertex polygon. The sign of this computation is negated when the value of GL_CLIP_ORIGIN (the clip volume origin, set with glClipControl()) is GL_UPPER_LEFT.
VERSION SUPPORT
┌───────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ OpenGL Shading Language Version │ ├───────────────┼──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┤ │Variable │ 1.10 │ 1.20 │ 1.30 │ 1.40 │ 1.50 │ 3.30 │ 4.00 │ 4.10 │ 4.20 │ 4.30 │ 4.40 │ 4.50 │ │Name │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├───────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┤ │gl_FrontFacing │ ✔ │ ✔ │ ✔ │ ✔ │ ✔ │ ✔ │ ✔ │ ✔ │ ✔ │ ✔ │ ✔ │ ✔ │ └───────────────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┘
SEE ALSO
gl_FragCoord(), glClipControl()
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2011-2014 Khronos Group. This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999. http://opencontent.org/openpub/.
COPYRIGHT
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