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Add ability to create scene primitives like sphere/cylinder/capsule/cube etc

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp

Research direction

Start by reviewing the project's existing scene and geometry creation APIs to determine how primitives are represented and rendered. Define the supported primitive set and the expected molecule-building use case, then identify suitable validation or example coverage; the issue does not name specific files or tests.

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Description

enhancement

Would you like to add some primitives including sphere/cylinder/capsule/polygons/circle/cone to this excellent project? I want to use them to build chemistry molecule.

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