Debate : voxel are aesthetic or just technology ?
Imagine a game that is technically built entirely with voxels, but where the voxels are so small (or the world resolution is so high) that the traditional blocky look, like Minecraft, is almost invisible.
Would it bother you if such a game were described as a “voxel game” ?
On one hand, it would be completely accurate from a technical standpoint. On the other hand, the word “voxel” is now so strongly associated with a specific visual style that it could create false expectations for players.
So I’m curious to hear what you think : does the word “voxel” primarily describe a technology, or has it become a visual style in itself ?
For a concrete example : all three images come from my Unity sandbox. The clouds themselves are made of voxels roughly 20 meters wide, contained inside volumes about 4 km across, with a view distance of around 30 km in these screenshots.
At that scale, you can barely perceive the individual voxels anymore but technically, everything is still voxel-based.