manuca/opengl_spring_demo

An animated spring using OpenGL and Glut

Intro

Some old experiments with OpenGL I found on my archives. This is very old stuff I wanted to share instead of throwing it away, maybe it will be useful to someone.

I remember I developed this on Linux and compiled it also on Visual Studio 6 under Win32. Today I own a Mac and managed to tweak the code just so that it compiles and runs.

Below you'll find instructions to compile under OSX and Linux, I don't remember how it was compiled under Windows google for it (search for "compile with glut under visual studio" or something).

Unfortunately the code has spanish comments and names.

Building

OSX

gcc -framework OpenGL -framework GLUT spring_demo.c -o spring_demo

Linux

gcc spring_demo.c -lGLU -lglut -o spring_demo

Win32

Pending instructions

Using

Drag with the mouse on the spring and the spring will oscilate with some simulated exponential dumping.

Keys

'N' Toggle visibility of normal vectors
'S' Toggles visibility of wires
'Num pad (or numbers)' produces some rotations ('5' resets view)