Rotating arbitrary blobs

Hi there,

I’m wanting to render (a lot of) white blobs of arbitrary shape and size to the frame buffer. Most importantly, I’m wanting to be able to rotate a blob by some arbitrary amount prior to rendering.

To date, with my blobs stored in memory as pixel data, I’ve been using glDrawPixels() and glPixelZoom() to do so. However, I can’t use glRotate() to effect any rotation – since glDrawPixels() inputs to the rasterization step, bypassing any rotation transformations.

Any suggestions as to how to deal with my blobs efficiently would be most appreciated.

Thanks,
Luke

You could render your blobs to a pbuffer and use that to texture map a quad which you can rotate.

-SirKnight