so polygons must be constructed of many of these, as shown above. However, many renderers either support quads and higher-sided polygons, or are able to convert polygons to triangles on the fly, making it unnecessary to store a mesh in a triangulated form.

Vertices

A vertex in computer graphics terms is a data structure that describes the position of a point in 2, 3 or 4D space on a surface along

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