how to rotate a polygon around a vertex

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hello guyz , i am a new user of the opengl GLUT library
and i wanna know how to rotate a polygon around a vertex and not the origin , using the glut library.
plz help

2

Move it so that the vertex you want to rotate around is the origin, rotate, move it back. This is independent of GLUT.

And please post a question only once.

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assume that i want to move it around a vertex which coordinates are (20,60) how to do it like that , and without that vertex to the origin ?

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As I told you, translate by (-20,-60), rotate, translate back (20,60). In the end this will also just be one transformation matrix for the GPU (that you can create on your own or by the old fixed-function glTranslate/glRotate/glTranslate calls).

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Are you able to display your polygon and point yet without any rotation? If so, post your code. I think you’ll get a lot more help if you post your code and tell us exactly how far you’ve gotten so far. Remember to place the code inside

 and [\code] tags (except with a forward slash instead of a backslash).