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<LI><em>From</em>: Mike Sellers <<A HREF="mailto:mike#online-alchemy,com">mike#online-alchemy,com</A>></LI>
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At 07:42 AM 3/24/98 PST8PDT, Koster, Raph wrote:
>Not to say voxels are bad--they are phenomenal looking in any sort of
>overhead view application, or fixed distance application. They also do
>great at terrain as long as you can't get too close to the terrain.
> They're currently getting trendy in computer game development
Indeed. I worked with voxels (real ones, not height-mapped pseudo-voxels
:) ) in medical imaging back in the early '90s. They are great for showing
irregular or organic surfaces and volumes, and only pixelate if you don't
do some sort of level-of-detail calculations on them -- most products don't
because that requires a huge, well-defined underlying data set and *a lot*
of CPU power. Still, just as we've seen progressive meshing applications
on PCs, I expect we'll see progressive LOD voxel engines within the next
couple of years. Personally, I can't wait for my Pentium III GigaPent
machine. ;)
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00900" HREF="msg00900.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] UML/Commercial v Free Muds</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00896" HREF="msg00896.html">3D engines for MUDs</A></strong>,
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