Awesome Voxel

Projects and resources relating to coding for Voxels

Key -

• :page_facing_up: Research project or paper
• :computer: Code
• :art: 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) :page_facing_up: 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 :computer: Dreamworks' hierarchical sparse volume representation and manipulation library
• OctoMap :computer: :art: An Efficient Probabilistic 3D Mapping Framework Based on Octrees

File Loaders

• EnkiMI :computer: 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] :page_facing_up: State of the Art on 3D Reconstruction with RGB-D Cameras
• voxblox :computer: :art: A volumetric library that stores Truncated Signed Distance Fields in voxels
• tsdf Fusion :computer: Fusing Truncated Signed Distance Files

Voxelizers

• VoxSurf :computer: :art: C++ surface voxelizer; converts STL files to VOX files
• SdfGen :computer: :art: commandline utility to generate grid-based signed distance fields from triangle meshes
• Voxelizer :computer: Header only voxelizer in C
• Discregid Discretize signed distance fields, includes cubic interpolation
• Haar Tree :computer: Haar Tree
• Voxel Hashing :computer: 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] :computer: :page_facing_up: Deep Voxels has a neural rendering function that uses voxel occupancy for an occlusion estimate.

Surfacers

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

Wavefront Collapse

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

Deformations

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

Rendering

• Fast Ray Box Intersections :computer: :page_facing_up: A Ray-Box Intersection Algorithm and Efficient Dynamic Voxel Rendering
• Voxel Rendering Techniques :page_facing_up: Optimal triangulation & more
• CPU Sparse Voxel Octree :computer: tunabrain's SVO raytracer
• Efficient Sparse Voxel Octrees :computer: :page_facing_up: Efficient Spare Volume Octrees by Laine and Karras
• Voxlap :computer: 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] :page_facing_up: A Fast Voxel Traversal Algorithm for Ray Tracking, by Amanatides and Woo

Physics

• Terrain Physics :page_facing_up: Voxel Terrain Physics and Collision

Proceduralism

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

Tools

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

Contribute

Contributions are welcome - see thecontribution guidelines

License

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