{"id":160,"date":"2008-10-29T09:16:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T07:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemshutdown.com\/wp\/?p=160"},"modified":"2008-10-29T09:16:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T07:16:23","slug":"where-have-you-been-voxel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/where-have-you-been-voxel","title":{"rendered":"Dear Voxel, Where’ve Ya Been?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone remember the voxel?\u00a0 Gamers used to remember voxels from the Voxel Space<\/a> engine that was used in Comanche: Maximum Overkill<\/a> and Delta Force<\/a>. Or maybe there’s some gamers out there that played Outcast<\/a>?\u00a0 (maybe?)<\/p>\n

In any case, it looks like voxels are not dead…\u00a0\u00a0 but taking a little vacation.\u00a0 It’s only a matter of time till someone exploits the hidden potential.\u00a0 Real destructible terrain w\/ density!\u00a0 Hellooooo?\u00a0 Well, one person seems to have figured it out and disguised his tech demo as a game called Voxelstein 3D<\/a>.\u00a0 I can’t tell you what hope this game gives me.\u00a0 Imagine not just blowing chunks off off buildings, in pre-cut peices… but actually being able to carve into terrain.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Seems like the medical field hasn’t let this technology unused.\u00a0 A few Siggraph’s back I was able to get a demo from one of the software engineers of this<\/a> intuitive application, but on ATI hardware.\u00a0 He moved points around to adjust the density and appearance of those densities in order to zero in on the skull and (with a little tweaking) the brain.<\/p>\n

Lucky for me, Houdini has voxels in it…\u00a0 voxel fluids<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Looks like there’s still some money to be made in software<\/a> & hardware<\/a> using voxel technology.<\/p>\n

Still wondering “What are voxels<\/a>“?\u00a0 Well Wiki seems to have the usual depth<\/a>, including a list of games that used the technology, like Crysis<\/a> & Worms 4 Mayhem… ?\u00a0 Ok, now we need an update to Scorched Earth, but with voxels.\u00a0 Mmmm\u00a0 MMmm good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone remember the voxel?\u00a0 Gamers used to remember voxels from the Voxel Space engine that was used in Comanche: Maximum Overkill and Delta Force. Or maybe there’s some gamers out there that played Outcast?\u00a0 (maybe?) In any case, it looks like voxels are not dead…\u00a0\u00a0 but taking a little vacation.\u00a0 It’s only a matter of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[15,85,145,147,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}