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...and there's no good reason why you can't, other than that in some iteration of API, frequent developers could not imagine why would anybody need that.

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Isn't it because everything is represented as triangles? That is fundamental to how openGL works I believe.

Everything can be represented in terms of everything else. It's a matter of caring, or not caring, about convenience.

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