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		convolvatron on Sept 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Perfect Voxel Engine yeah, actually i was going to ask in my earlier message - there must be some form of subdivision-surface-like smoothing model? you can certainly also do a gaussian with alpha if you dont mind drawing jello...are there other approaches you know of for direct rendering?

foota on Sept 26, 2021 [–]

One of the most common is marching cubes, although I think voxels can also be used directly, either with Ray tracing techniques or rasterization.

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