Create and edit geometric and other objects through a command line interface.

Expand and customize the user interface. For example, you can create a slider, which controls the bone angle of a skeleton.

Write custom material effects for photorealistic rendering.

Define constraints between objects. For example, the position of an object can be defined as a function of two other objects.

Create intelligent behavioral animations in which procedures written in macro languages control how objects behave.

Expression evaluation. The numeric interface for creating and modifying objects, for example, allows you to use expressions to define properties for objects. When creating a sphere, you can fetch information from other objects using expressions like (sphere1.center.x + sphere2.center.y)/2.0.