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- The_Wallbanger, on 06/13/2008, -6/+203Pixel Dog hurts my eyes.
- aserer511, on 06/14/2008, -1/+167It even woofs in MIDI.
- arunforce, on 06/14/2008, -2/+138So if resolution gets better, do Legos get smaller?
- inactive, on 06/14/2008, -4/+109Photoshopped! I can see the pixels. The shadows are all wrong.
- av4rice, on 06/14/2008, -3/+61voxel dog?
- Jenadae, on 06/14/2008, -2/+60Wow that actually looks pixelated, kinda hurts the eyes...
- leerayIG88, on 06/14/2008, -1/+45I would steal that dog if i had the chance.
- mareksoon, on 06/14/2008, -2/+42I don't get it. If everything is on reddit first, then why do y'all bother coming over here?
I don't reddit, so it was new to me.
Maybe you could be a hero on reddit and copy stories from digg over to there and make some kind of vortex ... - ScottoGato, on 06/14/2008, -1/+37My dog would still try to hump it.
- tyywebb, on 06/14/2008, -1/+30I like the real dog examining pixel dog.
- Xebozone, on 06/14/2008, -1/+26I bought one of those cameras and took a photo of pixel-dog and it never increased any detail :(
The advert lies! - theaverageidiot, on 06/14/2008, -1/+26Looks regular to me.
Then again, I have terrible eyesight. - ashamedgorilla, on 06/14/2008, -1/+23I thing Lego should sell sets of pixelated art.
- adnerb06, on 06/13/2008, -4/+24mirror: http://www.microsano.com/c/!KdT
- feliks2, on 06/14/2008, -2/+20That's cause its photoshopped. I can tell by the pixels.
- dtd00d, on 06/14/2008, -2/+16Is it bad if I dugg him up because I wanted to feel like I knew?
- TaintBrush, on 06/14/2008, -7/+21Mirror in case:
http://i25.tinypic.com/2urm4ag.jpg - drizzlelicious, on 06/14/2008, -1/+13Still waiting for this guy
http://www.quicklybored.com/wp-content/uploads/duc ... - DillonHinson, on 06/14/2008, -0/+12Who cares who submitted it? I never look at that. If I see something interesting, I check it out.
- Serinus, on 06/14/2008, -2/+13A voxel is the 3 dimensional equivalent of a pixel. (Thank you google.)
- inactive, on 06/14/2008, -5/+15Nevermind; this comment was awful.
- DelMonte, on 06/14/2008, -2/+11"Voxels are awesome, pity they are neglected, considering voxel graphics are about 10x less stressful on the hardware yet produce the same quality."
Ehm... you must be thinking about "voxel terrains" which are unfortunately confused with real voxel technology.
"Voxel terrains" are a very limited and deformed subset of real voxels. They're more of a height-map rendering technology that uses vertical lines of different height to create a terrain.
Real voxels are the 3d equivalent of a pixel (VOlumetric piXEL) where each display element is the same size and is constrained to a 3d grid (for example 100x100x100 voxels).
Real voxels are extremely stressful on hardware as the number of display elements goes up ^3 when increasing the resolution.
A 10x10x10 voxel volume uses 1000 voxels but a 100x100x100 volume uses one million voxels and is still very low resolution. A 1000x1000x1000 volume needs a potential one billion voxels to be displayed each frame! Not only it can be stressful on the rendering engine, but also on the memory/storage side (think bitmap vs vector images).
Advantages of using voxels include the fact that objects can have an internal structure, can be sliced and diced to reveal the innards without any complex calculation. That's why they're used in medical imaging.
Different part of a structure could have different properties, for example: a wooden block could be covered with sand that could be blown up using some air cannon, then the wood block could be chopped of using an axe to reveal a metal core that could be melted.
Metroid Cubed is a voxel remake of the first NES game using the original 8-bit graphics as a basis. - ResonantFish, on 06/14/2008, -1/+10Whatever you do, don't put one in Boston!
- Flashman, on 06/14/2008, -2/+11Just because MrBabyMan submitted it doesn't mean it needs to make the front page. But it's also awesome, which helps.
- arma, on 06/14/2008, -1/+9mmmmmmmmmmm vortex........
- DillonHinson, on 06/14/2008, -0/+7Dude, you're amazing. Nobody would have ever have guessed!
Pretty smart advertising, if you ask me. Makes you look, don't it? - feliks2, on 06/14/2008, -4/+11Stop gloating you asses and explain what voxels are.
- InspectorGadget, on 06/14/2008, -1/+7***** off spammer douchebag.
- DestroyFascism, on 06/14/2008, -1/+6If only it had a 92khz MP3 bark...
- lintmonkey, on 06/14/2008, -1/+6Thank you for sparing us.
- Insomnya3AM, on 06/14/2008, -1/+6Damn diggers.
- passedoutghost, on 06/14/2008, -1/+6If they did I'd grab a shotgun and blow it to pieces. Don't tell me you never tried.
- jp12380, on 06/14/2008, -1/+6Nothing like 8 bit.
I want one. - 6453893, on 06/14/2008, -2/+7Laika. Leica. That's really clever.
- madmac625, on 06/14/2008, -3/+7Moof
- markbrown, on 06/14/2008, -5/+9I can honestly say that Digg articles on ***** like this is what made me change my major to Marketing and Advertisement.
Thanks for making me poor, diggers. - BluSkreenOfDeth, on 06/14/2008, -0/+3Anymore...Anymore...
- Llanowar, on 06/14/2008, -3/+6Where can I get one?
- feliks2, on 06/14/2008, -2/+5Wow, ***** you. No one cares. Really, no one.
- reyoo30309, on 06/14/2008, -1/+4But thats where your wrong it does need to make the front page.
- ultrafez, on 06/14/2008, -0/+3That's because it is.
- silfiriel, on 06/14/2008, -0/+2sounds like a true Bender.
- juicebag, on 06/14/2008, -1/+3What's so special about this? It looks like a Lego dog.
- inactive, on 06/15/2008, -0/+2However, you did gloss over the advatages. Here is a 1999 voxel based pc game that ran entirely in software and had graphical effects gpu's were not capable of at the time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast_(video_game)
"character shadows, depth of field and reflections. Anti-aliasing is used to smooth certain texture boundaries. The heightmap engine renders reliefs with self-occlusion, motion parallax and silhouettes (but no shadowing), even for details such as cobblestones.
Water surfaces appear both translucent and reflective. The surface appears to reflect the environment (the skybox)[1] and appears rippled with moving waves, which react to the character's movement while in the water. The degree of translucency depends on the viewing angle. The more vertical the angle, the clearer the water appears while the more horizontal the angle, the stronger the reflections.
Other visual effects include bloom and lens flares[2], falling snow, fire and other glowing particles[3]. All of these taken together would have crippled even the most advanced graphics card at the time of release. As a result, the graphics were considered beautiful and well ahead of their time upon Outcast's release." - FrankTheTank17, on 06/14/2008, -1/+3Looks like more than 3 pixels to me.
- phenom2k7, on 06/14/2008, -1/+3is there an
- DoctorGumbo, on 06/14/2008, -2/+4That must explain the pixelated dog poop i stepped in this morning
- crazyeyezkilla, on 06/14/2008, -3/+4The leica M8 is a piece of *****:
http://web.mac.com/kamberm/Leica_M8_Field_Test,_Ir ... - pyrotechnick, on 06/15/2008, -0/+1Procedural B-Spline dog is far superior!
- zunkus, on 06/15/2008, -0/+1I ate some boomers on my birthday last week and for a little while peoples faces started to pixellate like that, it was pretty wild. Good times though.
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