Chapter Four. Fundamentals of a Digital Model

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Before we go too far down the rabbit hole, I want to introduce some of the elements of digital models and the terms you’ll encounter throughout the book. If you have some experience already, you may be inclined to skip this section, but I recommend you at least skim through it just to make sure we’re on the same page. You can think of this chapter as a refresher course of 3D models 101.

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A Model’s Anatomy

Digital models can be broken down into three types:

• Polygonal models are made up of a collection ...

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