Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!aipna!edai!ceb
From: ceb@edai.ed.ac.uk (Colin Bridgewater)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Request for info on octrees...
Summary: voxels and pixels
Keywords: v is voxels....
Message-ID: <157@edai.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Aug 88 15:59:01 GMT
References: <1070@ucsd.EDU> <1074@ucsd.EDU>
Reply-To: ceb@edai (Colin Bridgewater)
Distribution: comp.graphics
Organization: (_minimal_)  Dept of AI, University of Edinburgh
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In article <1074@ucsd.EDU> hutch@net1.UUCP (Jim Hutchison) writes:
>In article <1070@ucsd.EDU> hutch@net1.UUCP (Jim Hutchison) writes:
>>name.  I am aware of why.
>
>Franz Herbert.....suggested that voxel was a bad choice of name....
>This does not tell either of us why.  

 Voxel seems to have been chosen in order to keep some continuity between
 2D and 3D image processing. Pixel and Voxel are each respectively 'picture
 element' and 'volume element'. Since 'picture element' became 'pixel',
 why not call the 3D equivalent a 'voxel'. 

 Does this clear things up, or have I answered a non-existent problem (again).
 
 				Colin Bridgewater
 				

 (joke for UK people: "daft looking cars these voxels")