Awesome Voxel

Projects and resources relating to coding for Voxels

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• 📄 Research project or paper
• 💻 Code
• 🎨 Tool

Contents

• Deformations
• File Loaders
• Foundations
• Mapping
• Physics
• Proceduralism
• Reconstruction
• Rendering
• Sparse Volumes
• Surfacers
• Tools
• Voxelizers
• Wavefront Collapse
• Contribute
• License

Foundations

• (https://www.merl.com/publications/docs/TR2000-15.pdf) 📄 Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields: A General Representation of Shape for Computer Graphics, Sarah F. Frisken, Ronald N. Perry, Alyn P. Rockwood, Thouis R. Jones, TR2000-15 December 2000

Sparse Volumes

• OpenVdb 💻 Dreamworks' hierarchical sparse volume representation and manipulation library
• OctoMap 💻 🎨 An Efficient Probabilistic 3D Mapping Framework Based on Octrees

File Loaders

• EnkiMI 💻 Enki Minecraft file loader
• https://github.com/aiekick/MagicaVoxel_File_Writer Aiekick's Magica Voxel file writer

Mapping

• [https://web.stanford.edu/~zollhoef/papers/EG18_RecoSTAR/paper.pdf] 📄 State of the Art on 3D Reconstruction with RGB-D Cameras
• voxblox 💻 🎨 A volumetric library that stores Truncated Signed Distance Fields in voxels
• tsdf Fusion 💻 Fusing Truncated Signed Distance Files

Voxelizers

• VoxSurf 💻 🎨 C++ surface voxelizer; converts STL files to VOX files
• SdfGen 💻 🎨 commandline utility to generate grid-based signed distance fields from triangle meshes
• Voxelizer 💻 Header only voxelizer in C
• Discregid Discretize signed distance fields, includes cubic interpolation
• Haar Tree 💻 Haar Tree
• Voxel Hashing 💻 Voxel Hashing, by Niessner et al, Siggraph Asia 2017
• Voxel Panda Using SceneKit and ModelIO to voxelize a mesh, in Swift
• FileToVox Convert files to MagicaVoxel format

Reconstruction

• [https://github.com/vsitzmann/deepvoxels] 💻 📄 Deep Voxels has a neural rendering function that uses voxel occupancy for an occlusion estimate.
• [https://github.com/masked-spacetime-hashing/msth] 💻 📄 Masked Space-Time Hash Encoding for Efficient Dynamic Scene Reconstruction - MSTH represents a dynamic scene as a weighted combination of a 3D hash encoding and a 4D hash encoding.

Surfacers

• [https://github.com/emilk/Dual-Contouring] 💻 Dual Contouring
• [https://github.com/nickgildea/fast_dual_contouring] Dual contouring, includes a SIMD QEF implementation
• [https://github.com/Lin20/BinaryMeshFitting] 💻 Another contouring scheme, includes QEF
• [https://github.com/tdhooper/glsl-marching-cubes] 💻 Marching Cubes
• [https://github.com/matiascodesal/vox2usd] 💻 MagicaVoxel to USD with face merging

Wavefront Collapse

• VoxModSynth 💻 C++ implementation of wave function collabse for model synthesis

Deformations

• VolumeDeform 📄 VolumeDeform: Real-time Volumetric Non-rigid Reconstruction

Rendering

• voxl 💻 A fast renderer using Google's Highway for acceleration
• Fast Ray Box Intersections 💻 📄 A Ray-Box Intersection Algorithm and Efficient Dynamic Voxel Rendering
• Voxel Rendering Techniques 📄 Optimal triangulation & more
• CPU Sparse Voxel Octree 💻 tunabrain's SVO raytracer
• Efficient Sparse Voxel Octrees 💻 📄 Efficient Spare Volume Octrees by Laine and Karras
• Voxlap 💻 Ken Silverman's influential early voxel terrain engine. It's currently not that easy to compile, but it of definite historical interest.
• [https://github.com/s-macke/VoxelSpace] VoxelSpace - old school height map rendering
• [https://github.com/tommyettinger/IsoVoxel] IsoVoxel - render isometric views of VOX files
• [http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/year/2017/course/TDA362/grid.pdf] 📄 A Fast Voxel Traversal Algorithm for Ray Tracking, by Amanatides and Woo

Physics

• Terrain Physics 📄 Voxel Terrain Physics and Collision

Proceduralism

• Eric's MagicaVoxel Shaders 💻
• Lachlan's MagicaVoxel Shaders 💻
• Goxel's voxel shape grammar 💻
• patStar's MagicaVoxel Shaders 💻

Tools

• MagicaVoxel 🎨 MagicaVoxel Editor and Visualizer
• Goxel 💻 🎨 Open Source 3D voxel editor for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Linux.
• Vengi 💻 🎨 Cross platform voxel engine and tools like voxel editor, converter, and thumbnailer.
• VoxQL 💻 🎨 QuickLook Generator for MagicaVoxel files on Mac.
• [https://github.com/mikelovesrobots/mmmm] A collection of everything needed to populate a city

License

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