stackyFACTSInstead of wrapping flat textures around hollow polygons, voxel engines build objects using solid volumetric blocks, like digital Lego. It allows for incredible destruction mechanics because you can actually blast chunks out of a solid wall, rather than dealing with hollow, empty 3D facades.
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When your graphics card spits out images faster than your monitor can handle, the picture literally tears in half horizontally. Vsync steps in like an…
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Checking if you clicked on a highly detailed polygonal character model takes way too much math. To speed things up, software wraps objects in an invisible,…
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Digital drawing requires violently manipulating invisible, floating mathematical handles just to make a line bend exactly the way you want.
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Rendering infinite graphical detail relies on a single math equation repeating itself indefinitely until the digital sequence exhausts itself.
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