A 2D primitive defines an image line, that back projects as a 3D plane; the intersection between the two planes back projected by the corresponding primitives provide a 3D line, onto which the 3D primitive lies.
My advice to them on this count, which they regarded as endearingly trite and primitive, was to lay down their blessed devices and turn to literature.
The Jap defeat on Okinawa, far from crushing the national spirit, had aroused the citizens to a new resolve, and they'd be waiting for us with every primitive weapon they could lay their hands on.
In this painting, Rousseau's technique was exceedingly primitive; the woman lies stiffly on the ground, still clutching her walking staff, and her smiling face is childishly rendered.
The family went west, and Fleming was born, in 1889, near Pasadena, then a hamlet so primitive that his father, a citrus rancher, helped lay the public water-supply system.
While modern birds have only one functional oviduct and lay one egg at a time, more primitive birds and dinosaurs had two oviducts, like crocodiles.
The male hellbender, a primitive salamander, excavates an underwater nest and encourages females to lay there.
The word "formulaic" has come to have negative connotations, yet it must be remembered that formula lay at the heart of the invocative powers of all primitive magic, as it still lies at the heart of all religious ritual.
Lothian, also called Lyonnesse, a primitive province of Scotland lying between the Rivers Tweed and Forth.
And yes we also begin to see that the arrangement of the brain is partly an evolutionary archaeology: the most primitive and ancient regions lie farthest down while the surface folds of the cortex are closest to the human in both time and function.
To the north of these mountains lies the primitive mafic rocks of the Kohistan magmatic arc (Bignold et al. 2006; Khan et al. 1997), believed to have been formed in an intra-oceanic subduction setting, which is the primary geological unit within the Indus Suture Zone.
