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of the world. (The "world" is an imaginary object that acts as the root of all
other objects in the scene.)
Ancestors The parent and all of the parent's parents of a child object.
Descendents The children and all of the children's children of a parent
object.
Hierarchy The collection of all parents and children linked together in a
single structure.
Root The single parent object that is superior to all other objects in the
hierarchy. All other objects are descendents of the root object.
Subtree All of the descendents of a selected parent.
Branch A path through the hierarchy from a parent to a single descendent.
Leaf A child object that has no children of its own. The lowest object in a
branch.
Link The invisible connection between a parent and its child. The link is a
conduit for transmitting position, rotation, and scale information from parent
to child.
Pivot Defines the local center and coordinate system for each object. You
can think of links as connecting the pivot of a child object to the pivot of its
parent.
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