I'd say it depends on context. Historically, voxels have been analogous to pixels. This has been somewhat blurred by Minecraft, and the widespread reporting on

I'd say it depends on context. Historically, voxels have been analogous to pixels. This has been somewhat blurred by Minecraft, and the widespread reporting on and discussion of it. At first, the cubes in Minecraft are analogous to tiles (as in the tiled backgrounds or maps of 2D games), but when you use them to build models and things, then they become like large voxels.