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• Rendering
  

  While rendering voxels appears easy at a glance ("they're just cubes!"), there are actually many, many, trade-offs one has to take into account, mainly depending on the intended visual style and scale of the individual voxels.

• Level Of Detail
  

  Replacement of geometry that is too small with lower detail geometry.

• Raytracing
  

  Rendering images via raycasting, be it on the CPU or GPU, is a powerful method, especially when it comes to voxels.

• OpenGL API
  

  Classic hardware accelerated rendering API.

• Vulkan API
  

  Modern hardware accelerated rendering API.

• Surface Extraction
  

  Turning voxels into geometry.

• Signed Distance Fields
  

  A N-dimensional field where at every point the distance to the closest surface is known.

• Vertex Packing
  

  Manually bit-packing data into vertices for improved memory usage and bandwidth.

• Vertex Pulling
  

  Manual vertex streaming for improved memory usage and bandwidth.

• Face Pulling
  

  Taking vertex pulling to it's conclusion by streaming ONLY face-data.