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From what I understand, theres 2 different definitions of what a voxel is. The first, as is the case with this, is moreso on the data structure side of things,
by bodge5000 5y ago
From what I understand, theres 2 different definitions of what a voxel is.
The first, as is the case with this, is moreso on the data structure side of things, in which a voxel is like a point in a point cloud, but the point cloud is fixed to a 3d grid. The meshes can be anything, but cubes are the most common, and they are almost always polygonal.
The second is, as you describe, a fundamentally different rendering method using "3d pixels" instead of polygons. These kinds of voxels almost always use the same data structure above as well, but as you say they aren't polygons.
Strange we ended up with the same word for both, unless I'm mistaken
- aasasd 5y agoVoxels as in ‘3d pixels’ have been around since the 90s at the least, as evidenced by Vangers. Later, some people took the word and used it to describe Minecraft, in the meaning ‘big blobs that aren't even the smallest atomic unit, as there are clearly items that are made with smaller shapes’.