It provided simple, useful features which were unlikely to be supported in contemporary hardware, such as mipmap generation, tessellation, and generation of primitive shapes.

Each window system provides operations for drawing primitive shapes, iconifying/de-iconifying, resizing, and refreshing window contents.

When attempting to draw a complicated shape such as a human figure, it is helpful at first to represent the form with a set of primitive shapes.

The lines of the primitive shapes are removed and replaced by the final likeness.

These may be scaled or distorted primitive three-dimensional shapes (cylinders, blocks, wedges, etc).

Using primitive shapes to build models.

The Böhm-Jacopini canonical structures are made of these primitive shapes.

Therefore, a table of records will store properties/attributes for each primitive shape in the shapefile.

The primitive metal-alloy shape felt awkward on his head, the leads inside prickled.

Development began with low polygon versions of the game's three settings to hone gameplay, which were later upgraded with details created from primitive shapes.