Unlimited Detail

1. Fictional items designed by artists
2. Scanned Real world items

via Geeks3D and also covered by slashdot, rockpapershotgun.

[...] more correctly, get excited about voxels – Notch

See also:

• Detail
• Ace of Spades
• LG Optimus 3D
• HTC Evo 3D
• GTA – Google Street View
• Face input
• Awesomium
• Chat in 3D
• 3DTin
• Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition
• Create Your Own Puzzle At Mightier
• 3D site links
• 3D optical illusion alphabet by Jill and Marc
• Voxels, sparse octrees, virtualization by Anteru
• GPU Gems – Volume rendering techniques
• Animated SVOs by Dennis
• Voxels by Mr. Doob
• Practical parallel and concurrency programming by Thomas
• 3D pixel voxel by Tobias
• Doom Voxel Project
• Voxel terrain by Marcel
• Q-Block
• Cube Builder by Kris
• 3D Pixel Fun by Kris
• Voxel engines are everywhere by Mikola
• GigaVoxels by Cyril
• VoxLOD paper by Attila
• GPU Physics Dragons by Samuel

Ace Of Spades

Will this be as cool as Minecraft?

Seems like April is the month for Voxels

As I have a spare 1 TB of storage space on my external HDD it seems I should write a bot to back up stuff I link in this blog as they seem to become unavailable only within a few years.

Also do check out XB PointStream Demo by Andor Salga:

See also: Hexplore

See also:

• List of open source MineCrafts by Bruce
• Ken Silverman’s Voxlap engine!
• Doom Voxel Project
• Dysis by by Christopher

Goodies and BENGINE voxel engine

Bruce has been buzy I like the voxel tech. Voxels are the future! Anyone porting Descent?

See also:

• Quake 2 Source Code Review by Fabien
• DEMO: http://flaswf.googlecode.com/files/Alchemy_RayCaster_DEMO.swf
• SOURCE: http://flaswf.googlecode.com/files/ALC_Ray_Caster.zip
• BENGINE http://flaswf.googlecode.com/files/Bengine_v01.swf

Detail

Unlimited Detail is a fourth system, which is more like a search algorithm than a 3D engine. It is best explained like this: if you had a word document and you went to the “SEARCH” tool and typed in a word like “MONEY” the search tool quickly searches for every place that word appeared in the document. Google and Yahoo are also search engines that go looking for things very quickly. Unlimited Detail is basically a point cloud search algorithm. We can build enormous worlds with huge numbers of points, then compress them down to be very small. The Unlimited Detail engine works out which direction the camera is facing and then searches the data to find only the points it needs to put on the screen it doesn’t touch any unneeded points, all it wants is 1024*768 (if that is our resolution) points, one for each pixel of the screen. It has a few tricky things to work out, like: what objects are closest to the camera, what objects cover each other, how big should an object be as it gets further back. But all of this is done by a new sort of method that we call MASS CONNECTED PROCESSING. Mass connected processing is where  we have a way of processing masses of data at the same time and then applying the small changes to each part at the end.

The result is a perfect pure bug free 3D engine that gives Unlimited Geometry running super fast, and it’s all done in software.

 

 

 

Voxelstein 3D

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Voxelstein 3D is an FPS game inspired by Wolfenstein 3D. The game uses Ken Silverman’s VOXLAP engine to render voxels in software. The levels in the game are fully destructible – and by fully we mean fully.

See also:

• Destructor voxel based flash game by Bruce