voxels

what are sparse voxel octrees?

I have reading a lot about the potential use of sparse voxel octrees in future graphics engines. However I have been unable to find technical information on them. I understand what a voxel is, however I dont know what sparse voxel octrees are or how are they any more efficient than the polygonal techniques in use now. Could somebody e...

How to quickly count the number of neighboring voxels?

I have got a 3D grid (voxels), where some of the voxels are filled, and some are not. The 3D grid is sparsely filled, so I have got a set filledVoxels with coordinates (x, y, z) of the filled voxels. What I am trying to do is find out is for each filled voxel, how many neighboring voxels are filled too. Here is an example: filledVoxel...

vtk java voxel rendering

Hi Guys, does anyone knows, why this code in Java compiles, but an Error appears: "An unrecoverable stack overflow has occurred. # # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: # # EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW (0xc00000fd) at pc=0x5d05b377, pid=4576, tid=4888 # # JRE version: 6.0_20-b02 # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Cli...

Voxel 3d "grid"

Hey there, What in your opinions, would be the best language to create a large (massive..) 3d voxel based grid in? i.e. like Minecraft (http://www.minecraft.net/) I note that Minecraft was created in Java, this obviously has it's disadvantages. Help me make a decision! :) p.s. This is community wiki, so no points gained, just after ...