THE VIDEO SHELF · voxel engines
New Voxel Engine Reveal - Crystal Islands Experiment
John Lin reveals a rewritten voxel engine demonstrated in a Crystal Islands scene, with much finer voxel detail, fast collision, fracture and path-traced global illumination.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN cites it as a showcase of one of the best voxel engines, impressive for its detail and smoothness.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- John Lin
- Topic
- voxel engines
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2025
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From the original HN conversations
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For reference, this is John Lin who posts semi-frequent devlogs[0] of his voxel engine progress - an engine that is, in my opinion, one of the best voxel engines in existence rivaled only by Dennis Gustafsson's "Teardown" voxel engine. [0] [VIDEO]
junon on Hacker News · 2021-09
In The Perfect Voxel EngineJohn Lins [VIDEO] Crystal Island looks amazingly detailed and smooth. Wish he would continue or share how.
parlortricks on Hacker News · 2025-01
In VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code (2020)
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