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4 <refentry id="glGenerateMipmap">
5 <refmeta>
6 <refmetainfo>
7 <copyright>
8 <year>2010</year>
9 <holder>Khronos Group</holder>
10 </copyright>
11 </refmetainfo>
12 <refentrytitle>glGenerateMipmap</refentrytitle>
13 <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>
14 </refmeta>
15 <refnamediv>
16 <refname>glGenerateMipmap</refname>
17 <refpurpose>generate mipmaps for a specified texture target</refpurpose>
18 </refnamediv>
19 <refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>
20 <funcsynopsis>
21 <funcprototype>
22 <funcdef>void <function>glGenerateMipmap</function></funcdef>
23 <paramdef>GLenum <parameter>target</parameter></paramdef>
24 </funcprototype>
25 </funcsynopsis>
26 </refsynopsisdiv>
27 <!-- eqn: ignoring delim $$ -->
28 <refsect1 id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>
29 <variablelist>
30 <varlistentry>
31 <term><parameter>target</parameter></term>
32 <listitem>
33 <para>
34 Specifies the target to which the texture whose mimaps to generate is bound. <parameter>target</parameter> must
35 be <constant>GL_TEXTURE_1D</constant>, <constant>GL_TEXTURE_2D</constant>, <constant>GL_TEXTURE_3D</constant>,
36 <constant>GL_TEXTURE_1D_ARRAY</constant>, <constant>GL_TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY</constant> or
37 <constant>GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP</constant>.
38 </para>
39 </listitem>
40 </varlistentry>
41 </variablelist>
42 </refsect1>
43 <refsect1 id="description"><title>Description</title>
44 <para>
45 <function>glGenerateMipmap</function> generates mipmaps for the texture attached
46 to <parameter>target</parameter> of the active texture unit. For cube map textures,
47 a <constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> error is generated if the texture
48 attached to <parameter>target</parameter> is not cube complete.
49 </para>
50 <para>
51 Mipmap generation replaces texel array levels
52 <inlineequation><mml:math>
53 <!-- eqn: level sub base + 1: -->
54 <mml:mrow>
55 <mml:msub>
56 <mml:mi mathvariant="italic">level</mml:mi>
57 <mml:mi>base</mml:mi>
58 </mml:msub>
59 <mml:mo>+</mml:mo>
60 <mml:mn>1</mml:mn>
61 </mml:mrow>
62 </mml:math></inlineequation>
63 through
64 <inlineequation><mml:math>
65 <mml:mrow>
66 <mml:mi mathvariant="italic">q</mml:mi>
67 </mml:mrow>
68 </mml:math></inlineequation>
69 with arrays derived from the
70 <inlineequation><mml:math>
71 <!-- eqn: level sub base + 1: -->
72 <mml:mrow>
73 <mml:msub>
74 <mml:mi mathvariant="italic">level</mml:mi>
75 <mml:mi>base</mml:mi>
76 </mml:msub>
77 </mml:mrow>
78 </mml:math></inlineequation>
79 array, regardless of their previous contents. All other mimap arrays,
80 including the
81 <inlineequation><mml:math>
82 <!-- eqn: level sub base + 1: -->
83 <mml:mrow>
84 <mml:msub>
85 <mml:mi mathvariant="italic">level</mml:mi>
86 <mml:mi>base</mml:mi>
87 </mml:msub>
88 </mml:mrow>
89 </mml:math></inlineequation>
90 array, are left unchanged by this computation.
91 </para>
92 <para>
93 The internal formats of the derived mipmap arrays all match those of the
94 <inlineequation><mml:math>
95 <!-- eqn: level sub base + 1: -->
96 <mml:mrow>
97 <mml:msub>
98 <mml:mi mathvariant="italic">level</mml:mi>
99 <mml:mi>base</mml:mi>
100 </mml:msub>
101 </mml:mrow>
102 </mml:math></inlineequation>
103 array. The contents of the derived arrays are computed by repeated, filtered
104 reduction of the
105 <inlineequation><mml:math>
106 <!-- eqn: level sub base + 1: -->
107 <mml:mrow>
108 <mml:msub>
109 <mml:mi mathvariant="italic">level</mml:mi>
110 <mml:mi>base</mml:mi>
111 </mml:msub>
112 </mml:mrow>
113 </mml:math></inlineequation>
114 array. For one- and two-dimensional texture arrays, each layer is filtered
115 independently.
116 </para>
117 </refsect1>
118 <refsect1 id="errors"><title>Errors</title>
119 <para>
120 <constant>GL_INVALID_ENUM</constant> is generated if <parameter>target</parameter> is not
121 one of the accepted texture targets.
122 </para>
123 <para>
124 <constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> is generated if <parameter>target</parameter> is
125 <constant>GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP</constant> and the texture bound to the <constant>GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP</constant>
126 target of the active texture unit is not cube complete.
127 </para>
128 </refsect1>
129 <refsect1 id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>
130 <para>
131 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glTexImage2D</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
132 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glBindTexture</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
133 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGenTextures</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
134 </para>
135 </refsect1>
136 <refsect1 id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>
137 <para>
138 Copyright <trademark class="copyright"></trademark> 2010 Khronos Group.
139 This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in
140 the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.
141 <ulink url="http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</ulink>.
142 </para>
143 </refsect1>
144 </refentry>