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From: hutch@net1.ucsd.edu (Jim Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Request for info on octrees...
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Date: 3 Aug 88 06:11:17 GMT
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In article <1070@ucsd.EDU> hutch@net1.UUCP (Jim Hutchison) writes:
>name.  I am aware of why.

Oops, no I am not aware of why (typo).  A fellow Named Franz Herbert,
whom used to work with me, did his masters thesis on a binary
implementation of octrees.  He suggested that voxel was a bad choice of
names.  This does not tell either of us why.  The name refers
apparently to a simpler object than current manifestations, this is all
I remember (HELP!).
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