opengl: unable to draw left wall - c

Question

I am trying to start building a very basic room using opengl. For some reason in the function drawWalls() the left wall doesn't get drawn or i'm misunderstanding the camera positioning. Does anyone have any idea why I can't see the left wall when running this code?
my code:
#include <gl/gl.h>
#include <gl/glut.h>
/*defining colors used in the room*/
GLfloat black[] = {0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0};
GLfloat white[] = {1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0};
GLfloat brown[] = {165.0/255.0, 42.0/255.0, 42.0/255.0, 1.0};
void drawFloor()
{
glBegin(GL_QUAD_STRIP);
glColor4fv(black);
glVertex3f(0.0, 0.0, -3.0);
glVertex3f(1.0, 0.0, -3.0);
glVertex3f(2.0, 0.0, -3.0);
glEnd();
}
void drawWalls()
{
glBegin(GL_QUAD_STRIP);
glColor4fv(white);
glPolygonMode(GL_FRONT, GL_FILL);
//draw left wall
glVertex3f(0.0, 0.0, 2.0);
glVertex3f(0.0, 1.0, 2.0);
glVertex3f(0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
glVertex3f(0.0, 1.0, 1.0);
glVertex3f(0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
glVertex3f(0.0, 1.0, 0.0);
//draw front wall
glVertex3f(0.0, 0.0, 3.0);
glVertex3f(0.0, 1.0, 3.0);
glVertex3f(1.0, 0.0, 3.0);
glVertex3f(1.0, 1.0, 3.0);
glVertex3f(2.0, 0.0, 3.0);
glVertex3f(2.0, 1.0, 3.0);
glEnd();
}
void display()
{
glClearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
gluLookAt(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.8, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0);
drawFloor();
drawWalls();
glFlush();
glutSwapBuffers();
}
void reshape(int w, int h)
{
glViewport(0, 0, (GLsizei) w, (GLsizei) h);
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
gluPerspective(60, (GLfloat) w / (GLfloat) h, 1, 500);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
}
void idleFunc()
{
glutPostRedisplay();
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
glutInit(&argc, argv);
glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_DOUBLE | GLUT_RGB | GLUT_DEPTH);
glutInitWindowSize(500, 500);
glutInitWindowPosition(0, 0);
glutCreateWindow("My room");
glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
glutDisplayFunc(display);
glutReshapeFunc(reshape);
glutIdleFunc(idleFunc);
glutMainLoop();
}

Answer 1

Why do you expect to see the left wall? It is off-screen (for any reasonable aspect ratios of your window). If we imagine some "world space", you'll have the folliwing situation: Your camera is placed at the origin and looking at almost diagonal vector. The lfet wall is placed at x=0 too, so you have almost 45 degrees between the view direction and the wall. Your frustum starts at distance 1 in front of the camera, and has a vertical FOV of 60 degrees, and the horizontal FOV is defined by the aspect ratio of the window. So if you make the window much wider than tall, you have a chance of seeing that wall.