Monthly Archives: July 2012

Simplifying Isosurfaces (Part 1)

Posted on July 21, 2012 by mikolalysenko

I just got back to the US after spending 3 months in Berlin, and I’ve now got plenty of ideas kicking around that I need to get on to paper.   Recall that lately I’ve been blogging about solid modeling and … Continue reading →

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Smooth Voxel Terrain (Part 2)

Posted on July 12, 2012 by mikolalysenko

Last time we formulated the problem of isosurface extraction and discussed some general approaches at a high level.  Today, we’re going to get very specific and look at meshing in particular. For the sake of concreteness, let us suppose that … Continue reading →

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Smooth Voxel Terrain (Part 1)

Posted on July 10, 2012 by mikolalysenko

My god…  I’ve now written three blog posts about Minecraft.  If you are at all like me, you may be getting just a bit tired of all those cubes.  To avoid fatigue, I think now is a good time to change … Continue reading →

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Meshing in a Minecraft Game (Part 2)

Posted on July 7, 2012 by mikolalysenko

Last time, I wrote about how to generate meshes in a Minecraft-style voxel engine.  I got a lot of interesting feedback, and so today I’m going to do a follow up highlighting some of the points that came up in the … Continue reading →

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