Sierpinski Gasket 3D rotation - opengl

Question

I'm trying to create a 3D rotating Sierpinski Gasket in OpenGL. Here is what I have:
/* initial tetrahedron */
GLfloat v[4][3]={{0.0, 0.0, 1.0}, {0.0, 0.942809, -0.33333},
{-0.816497, -0.471405, -0.333333}, {0.816497, -0.471405, -0.333333}};
GLfloat colors[4][3] = {{1.0, 0.0, 0.0}, {0.0, 1.0, 0.0},
{0.0, 0.0, 1.0}, {0.0, 0.0, 0.0}};
static GLfloat spin = 0.0;
int n;
void triangle(GLfloat *va, GLfloat *vb, GLfloat *vc)
{
glVertex3fv(va);
glVertex3fv(vb);
glVertex3fv(vc);
}
void tetra(GLfloat *a, GLfloat *b, GLfloat *c, GLfloat *d)
{
glColor3fv(colors[0]);
triangle(a, b, c);
glColor3fv(colors[1]);
triangle(a, c, d);
glColor3fv(colors[2]);
triangle(a, d, b);
glColor3fv(colors[3]);
triangle(b, d, c);
}
void divide_tetra(GLfloat *a, GLfloat *b, GLfloat *c, GLfloat *d, int m)
{
GLfloat mid[6][3];
int j;
if(m>0)
{
/* compute six midpoints */
for(j=0; j<3; j++) mid[0][j]=(a[j]+b[j])/2;
for(j=0; j<3; j++) mid[1][j]=(a[j]+c[j])/2;
for(j=0; j<3; j++) mid[2][j]=(a[j]+d[j])/2;
for(j=0; j<3; j++) mid[3][j]=(b[j]+c[j])/2;
for(j=0; j<3; j++) mid[4][j]=(c[j]+d[j])/2;
for(j=0; j<3; j++) mid[5][j]=(b[j]+d[j])/2;
/* create 4 tetrahedrons by subdivision */
divide_tetra(a, mid[0], mid[1], mid[2], m-1);
divide_tetra(mid[0], b, mid[3], mid[5], m-1);
divide_tetra(mid[1], mid[3], c, mid[4], m-1);
divide_tetra(mid[2], mid[4], d, mid[5], m-1);
}
else(tetra(a,b,c,d)); /* draw tetrahedron at end of recursion */
}
void display()
{
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);
divide_tetra(v[0], v[1], v[2], v[3], n);
glEnd();
glFlush();
}
void myReshape(int w, int h)
{
glViewport(0, 0, w, h);
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
if (w <= h)
glOrtho(-2.0, 2.0, -2.0 * (GLfloat) h / (GLfloat) w,
2.0 * (GLfloat) h / (GLfloat) w, -10.0, 10.0);
else
glOrtho(-2.0 * (GLfloat) w / (GLfloat) h,
2.0 * (GLfloat) w / (GLfloat) h, -2.0, 2.0, -10.0, 10.0);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glutPostRedisplay();
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
//set static value for part c)
n=4;
//n=atoi(argv[1]); /* or enter number of subdivision steps here */
glutInit(&argc, argv);
glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_SINGLE | GLUT_RGB | GLUT_DEPTH);
glutInitWindowSize(500, 500);
glutCreateWindow("3D Gasket");
glutReshapeFunc(myReshape);
glutDisplayFunc(display);
glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
glClearColor (1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0);
glutMainLoop();
}
Right now my code creates the actual gasket itself. I'm unsure how to make the tetrahedrons spin in a 3D fashion across an axis.
This is my first time working with OpenGL

Answer 1

If you want animation, you can use glutTimerFunc() to register a timer callback, in which you can increment an angle every time it is called, and tell GLUT to redraw, like so:
float angle = 0.0
myTimerFunc()
{
angle += 0.01
glutPostRedisplay();
}
display()
{
// do setup as before, then rotate model
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glRotate(angle, 0.0,1.0,1.0) // rotate around Y axis
// do drawing
}