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Thus, vector data structures typically represent geometric primitives using a strategic sample, organized in structures that facilitate the software interpolating the remainder of the shape at the time of analysis or display, using the algorithms of Computational geometry. [2] A Point is a single coordinate in a Cartesian coordinate system.
The core functionality added by a spatial extension to a database is one or more spatial datatypes, which allow for the storage of spatial data as attribute values in a table. [4] Most commonly, a single spatial value would be a geometric primitive (point, line, polygon, etc.) based on the vector data model.
While vector hardware has largely disappeared in favor of raster-based monitors and printers, [2] vector data and software continue to be widely used, especially when a high degree of geometric precision is required, and when complex information can be decomposed into simple geometric primitives.
Each bucket is diced and drawn individually, and the data from the previous bucket is discarded before the next bucket is processed. In this way only a frame buffer for the current bucket and the high-level descriptions of all geometric primitives must be maintained in memory.
The simplest solid objects used for the representation are called geometric primitives. Typically they are the objects of simple shape: cuboids, cylinders, prisms, pyramids, spheres, cones. [1] The set of allowable primitives is limited by each software package. Some software packages allow CSG on curved objects while other packages do not.
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This means all representations are different ways of organizing the same geometric and topological data in the form of a data structure. All representation schemes are organized in terms of a finite number of operations on a set of primitives.
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