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						Specifies the tessellation object (created with <a href="gluNewTess.3G.xml"><tt>gluNewTess</tt></a>).
					</dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="gluBeginPolygon.3G-description"/><h2>Description</h2><p>
			<tt>gluBeginPolygon</tt> and <tt>gluEndPolygon</tt> delimit the definition of a nonconvex
			polygon. To define such a polygon, first call <tt>gluBeginPolygon</tt>. Then define the contours of the
			polygon by calling <a href="gluTessVertex.3G.xml"><tt>gluTessVertex</tt></a> for each vertex and <a href="gluNextContour.3G.xml"><tt>gluNextContour</tt></a> to start each new contour. Finally, call
			<tt>gluEndPolygon</tt> to signal the end of the definition. See the <a href="gluTessVertex.3G.xml"><tt>gluTessVertex</tt></a> and <a href="gluNextContour.3G.xml"><tt>gluNextContour</tt></a> reference
			pages for more details.
		</p><p>
			Once <tt>gluEndPolygon</tt> is called, the polygon is tessellated, and the resulting triangles are
			described through callbacks. See <a href="gluTessCallback.3G.xml"><tt>gluTessCallback</tt></a> for descriptions of the
			callback functions.
		</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="gluBeginPolygon.3G-notes"/><h2>Notes</h2><p>
			This command is obsolete and is provided for backward compatibility only. Calls to <tt>gluBeginPolygon</tt>
			are mapped to <a href="gluTessBeginPolygon.3G.xml"><tt>gluTessBeginPolygon</tt></a> followed by <a href="gluTessBeginContour.3G.xml"><tt>gluTessBeginContour</tt></a>. Calls to <tt>gluEndPolygon</tt> are mapped to <a href="gluTessBeginContour.3G.xml"><tt>gluTessEndContour</tt></a> followed by <a href="gluTessEndPolygon.3G.xml"><tt>gluTessEndPolygon</tt></a>.
		</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="gluBeginPolygon.3G-example"/><h2>Example</h2><p>
			A quadrilateral with a triangular hole in it can be described like this:
		</p><pre class="programlisting">gluBeginPolygon(tobj);
gluTessVertex(tobj, v1, v1);
gluTessVertex(tobj, v2, v2);
gluTessVertex(tobj, v3, v3);
gluTessVertex(tobj, v4, v4);
gluNextContour(tobj, GLU_INTERIOR);
gluTessVertex(tobj, v5, v5);
gluTessVertex(tobj, v6, v6);
gluTessVertex(tobj, v7, v7);
gluEndPolygon(tobj);</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="gluBeginPolygon.3G-see_also"/><h2>See Also</h2><p>
			<span class="simplelist"><a href="gluNewTess.3G.xml">gluNewTess</a>, <a href="gluNextContour.3G.xml">gluNextContour</a>, <a href="gluTessCallback.3G.xml">gluTessCallback</a>, <a href="gluTessVertex.3G.xml">gluTessVertex</a>, <a href="gluTessBeginPolygon.3G.xml">gluTessBeginPolygon</a>, <a href="gluTessBeginContour.3G.xml">gluTessBeginContour</a></span>
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