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 ''

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''), and later Voxel Space 32 and used in '' Armored Fist 3'' and '' Delta Force 2''. Based on Kyle Freeman's experience with voxels in medical-imaging technologies used in

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and

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s, similar technology was used in games such as ''