What are Primitives?

What are Primitives?

No.. they're not the people who discovered fire!

Rather, Primitives are three-dimensional geometric shapes that are the building blocks for creating complex geometric objects. A triangle is a primitive formed by 3 vertices. It is the 2D shape with the smallest number of vertices, so renderers are typically designed to render them. Triangle is a great primitive mostly used to represent & render 3D meshes. Similarly, the primitive used by a Point Cloud is a point.