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  • Planets

    Just as with the problem of map projection, creating planets shows a fundamental fact with voxels: As they are regular grids, shaping the actual grid into a planet, without distortions or discontinuities, is mathematically impossible. As such, we need to employ different methods depending on what we ultimately want to achieve.

  • Coordinate Systems

    When dealing with voxels (and math in three-dimensional space in general), it is extremely important to get your coordinate systems and the conversions between them right. Even slightly wrong conversions can (and will) lead to massive headaches and horrible debugging sessions.

  • Types of Noise
    Types of noise commonly used for procedural generation.
  • 3D Raycasting

    The Digital Differential Analyzer (DDA) algorithm, adapted to 3D, is exactly the thing one needs to travel along a line (or a ray) through a grid of voxels.

  • Noise
    Fields of pseudorandom numbers.