Properties of 3D shapes 3D shapes have faces (sides), edges and vertices (corners). Faces - A face is a flat or curved surface on a 3D shape. For example a cube has six faces, a cylinder has three ...

For now, let's concentrate on what gets done to these vertices in a 3D game, every time a new frame is rendered (if you're not sure what that means, have a quick scan again of our rendering 101).