Eh, I think the more charitable reading is they meant a physical atom, but in the sense "not a single atom has been designed by hand." It's like if you made so

Eh, I think the more charitable reading is they meant a physical atom, but in the sense "not a single atom has been designed by hand." It's like if you made some algorithmic music and claimed every nanosecond was generated automatically, even though we tend to think in terms of notes that are orders of magnitude larger. If they really expect anyone in the gaming community to believe they're rendering each blade of grass with a few Octillion points or polygons, they're absolutely insane.