Specify the window coordinates of the lower left corner of the rectangular region of pixels to be copied.

Specify the dimensions of the rectangular region of pixels to be copied. Both must be nonnegative.

Specifies whether color values, depth values, or stencil values are to be copied. Symbolic constants GL_COLOR, GL_DEPTH, and GL_STENCIL are accepted.

Indices or RGBA colors are read from the buffer currently specified as the read source buffer (see glReadBuffer). If the GL is in color index mode, each index that is read from this buffer is converted to a fixed-point format with an unspecified number of bits to the right of the binary point. Each index is then shifted left by GL_INDEX_SHIFT bits, and added to GL_INDEX_OFFSET. If GL_INDEX_SHIFT is negative, the shift is to the right. In either case, zero bits fill otherwise unspecified bit locations in the result. If GL_MAP_COLOR is true, the index is replaced with the value that it references in lookup table GL_PIXEL_MAP_I_TO_I. Whether the lookup replacement of the index is done or not, the integer part of the index is then ANDed with $2^{\mathit{b}}-1$, where $\mathit{b}$ is the number of bits in a color index buffer.

If the GL is in RGBA mode, the red, green, blue, and alpha components of each pixel that is read are converted to an internal floating-point format with unspecified precision. The conversion maps the largest representable component value to 1.0, and component value 0 to 0.0. The resulting floating-point color values are then multiplied by GL_c_SCALE and added to GL_c_BIAS, where c is RED, GREEN, BLUE, and ALPHA for the respective color components. The results are clamped to the range [0,1]. If GL_MAP_COLOR is true, each color component is scaled by the size of lookup table GL_PIXEL_MAP_c_TO_c, then replaced by the value that it references in that table. c is R, G, B, or A.

If the ARB_imaging extension is supported, the color values may be additionally processed by color-table lookups, color-matrix transformations, and convolution filters.

The GL then converts the resulting indices or RGBA colors to fragments by attaching the current raster position z coordinate and texture coordinates to each pixel, then assigning window coordinates $\left({\mathit{x}}_{\mathit{r}}+\mathit{i},{\mathit{y}}_{\mathit{r}}+\mathit{j}\right)$, where $\left({\mathit{x}}_{\mathit{r}},{\mathit{y}}_{\mathit{r}}\right)$ is the current raster position, and the pixel was the $\mathit{i}$th pixel in the $\mathit{j}$th row. These pixel fragments are then treated just like the fragments generated by rasterizing points, lines, or polygons. Texture mapping, fog, and all the fragment operations are applied before the fragments are written to the frame buffer.

Depth values are read from the depth buffer and converted directly to an internal floating-point format with unspecified precision. The resulting floating-point depth value is then multiplied by GL_DEPTH_SCALE and added to GL_DEPTH_BIAS. The result is clamped to the range [0,1].

The GL then converts the resulting depth components to fragments by attaching the current raster position color or color index and texture coordinates to each pixel, then assigning window coordinates $\left({\mathit{x}}_{\mathit{r}}+\mathit{i},{\mathit{y}}_{\mathit{r}}+\mathit{j}\right)$, where $\left({\mathit{x}}_{\mathit{r}},{\mathit{y}}_{\mathit{r}}\right)$ is the current raster position, and the pixel was the $\mathit{i}$th pixel in the $\mathit{j}$th row. These pixel fragments are then treated just like the fragments generated by rasterizing points, lines, or polygons. Texture mapping, fog, and all the fragment operations are applied before the fragments are written to the frame buffer.

Stencil indices are read from the stencil buffer and converted to an internal fixed-point format with an unspecified number of bits to the right of the binary point. Each fixed-point index is then shifted left by GL_INDEX_SHIFT bits, and added to GL_INDEX_OFFSET. If GL_INDEX_SHIFT is negative, the shift is to the right. In either case, zero bits fill otherwise unspecified bit locations in the result. If GL_MAP_STENCIL is true, the index is replaced with the value that it references in lookup table GL_PIXEL_MAP_S_TO_S. Whether the lookup replacement of the index is done or not, the integer part of the index is then ANDed with $2^{\mathit{b}}-1$, where $\mathit{b}$ is the number of bits in the stencil buffer. The resulting stencil indices are then written to the stencil buffer such that the index read from the $\mathit{i}$th location of the $\mathit{j}$th row is written to location $\left({\mathit{x}}_{\mathit{r}}+\mathit{i},{\mathit{y}}_{\mathit{r}}+\mathit{j}\right)$, where $\left({\mathit{x}}_{\mathit{r}},{\mathit{y}}_{\mathit{r}}\right)$ is the current raster position. Only the pixel ownership test, the scissor test, and the stencil writemask affect these write operations.