Line Strips

A line strip is a primitive that is composed of connected line segments. Your application can use line strips for creating polygons that are not closed. A closed polygon is a polygon whose last vertex is connected to its first vertex by a line segment. If your application makes polygons based on line strips, the vertices are not guaranteed to be coplanar.

The following illustration depicts a rendered line strip.

The following code shows how to create vertices for this line strip.

Private Type CUSTOMVERTEX
    x As Single
    y As Single
    z As Single
End Type

Dim Vertices(5) As CUSTOMVERTEX
With Vertices(0): .x = -5.0: .y = -5.0: .z = 0.0: End With
With Vertices(1): .x =  0.0: .y =  5.0: .z = 0.0: End With
With Vertices(2): .x =  5.0: .y = -5.0: .z = 0.0: End With
With Vertices(3): .x = 10.0: .y =  5.0: .z = 0.0: End With
With Vertices(4): .x = 15.0: .y = -5.0: .z = 0.0: End With
With Vertices(5): .x = 20.0: .y =  5.0: .z = 0.0: End With