Typical Primitive Objects
Any particular vector file format supports only some kinds of primitive objects. Nearly all vector file formats support simple and fast-rendering primitive objects:
- Lines, polylines and polygons
- Bézier curves and bezigons
- Circles and ellipses
Most vector file formats support
- Text (in computer font formats such as TrueType where each letter is created from Bézier curves) or quadratics.
- color gradient
- Often, a bitmap image is considered as a primitive object. From the conceptual view, it behaves as a rectangle.
A few vector file formats support more complex objects as primitives:
- Many computer-aided design applications support splines and other curves, such as:
- Catmull-Rom splines
- NURBS
- iterated function systems
- superellipses and superellipsoids
- metaballs
- etc.
If an image stored in one vector file format is converted to another file format that supports all the primitive objects used in that particular image, then the conversion can be lossless.
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