Voxel Space was a

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rendering engine invented by Novalogic developer and vice-president of technology, Kyle Freeman. The company was issued a patent for the technology in early 2000.

History

The original Voxel Space engine was patented in 1996, and first released in software in the 1992 release '' Comanche: Maximum Overkill''. The engine was then revamped into Voxel Space 2 (which supports the use of

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as well as voxels, and was used in '' Comanche 3'' and '' Armored Fist 2''), and later Voxel Space 32 and used in ''

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''. Based on Kyle Freeman's experience with voxels in medical-imaging technologies used in CT scan and

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s, similar technology was used in games such as '' Outcast''. With the advance of computation power in modern computers there do exist browser-based versions of similar technology based on the Voxel Space terrain rendering used in ''

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''. The version of the engine used in the Comanche series utilized ray-tracing every pixel of the volumetric terrain data.

Versions

* Voxel Space 3D: * Voxel Space 2: * Voxel Space 32: 32-bit rendering, 16 million color support, 360 degrees of transformation.

List of games

The technology was used in a number of commercial game titles. * ''Werewolf'' * ''

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References

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