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title: Emitter Shape
framework: quartzcore
role: collectionGroup
role_heading: API Collection
path: quartzcore/emitter-shape
---

# Emitter Shape

The emission shape is a one, two or three dimensional shape that defines where the emitted particles originate. The shapes are defined by a subset of emitterPosition, emitterZPosition, emitterSize and emitterDepth properties.

## Topics

### Constants

- [point](quartzcore/caemitterlayeremittershape/point.md)
- [line](quartzcore/caemitterlayeremittershape/line.md)
- [rectangle](quartzcore/caemitterlayeremittershape/rectangle.md)
- [cuboid](quartzcore/caemitterlayeremittershape/cuboid.md)
- [circle](quartzcore/caemitterlayeremittershape/circle.md)
- [sphere](quartzcore/caemitterlayeremittershape/sphere.md)

## See Also

### Constants

- [Emitter Modes](quartzcore/emitter-modes.md)
- [Emitter Render Order](quartzcore/emitter-render-order.md)