as I understand it, the disparity in explanations can be attributed to that we're talking about using voxels in a data structure known as a sparse octree, that

as I understand it, the disparity in explanations can be attributed to that we're talking about using voxels in a data structure known as a sparse octree, that would in itself be used to optimize the system by, among other things, allowing only the surface information to be stored. edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voxel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voxel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_voxel_octree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_voxel_octree