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Aidan Sanders
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Founder, CEO @refugestudios.bsky.social
Technical innovator driving the future of volumetric graphics and real-time 3D rendering.
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Improved Voxel Animated Fox
#gamedev #indiedev #voxel
October 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Rendering with Sparse Voxel Raytracing. Here’s a look at the iterations before vs. after the garbage collector kicks in.
#gamedev #indiedev #voxel
Voxels rendered with Sparse Voxel Raytracing. Upon subtracting voxels, the SVDAG structure contains branches without leaves. Voxel scene rendered after garbage collection. Empty branches have been removed, leaving only the occupied voxels. The structure appears cleaner, lighter, and more efficient.
October 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Screenshot of my WIP voxel editor, rendering a 3D scene using a Sparse Voxel DAG (SVDAG).
Focused on efficiency and memory optimization for real-time 3D rendering. #GameDev #IndieDev
October 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Editing cubes like #Minecraft, Watch and Wait for the zoom out!
This is a Work in progress Voxel Editor to support high resolution voxel scenes.
#voxel #gamedev #indiedev
October 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Work in progress: voxel editor for editing 3D scenes
#gamedev #indiedev #voxel
Screenshot of a voxel editor rendering a 3D scene using a 1-indexed Sparse Voxel DAG (SVDAG)
October 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Look closely and you'll see this picture is actually made out of cubes!
#voxel #voxelart #gamedev
A pretty landscape picture made from tiny cubes also known as voxels.
September 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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I've been sick, so enjoy this old scene made out of tiny voxels!
#voxel #voxelart #gamedev
September 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Another Example of a octree to .vox model!
Coming soon at www.refugestudios.com.au 👀
#magicavoxel #voxel #gamedev
August 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Another Octree to .vox render showcase!
A handy feature for anyone using .vox models in games or art.
Coming soon at www.refugestudios.com.au 👀
#gamedev #indiedev #voxel
A voxel model generated from an octree structure, displayed in a blocky, grid-like 3D form. The model shows clean voxel geometry with evenly spaced cubes, representing accurate spatial conversion. Ideal for use in games or digital art using the .vox format. A detailed voxel structure produced from an octree conversion, showcasing precise block-based geometry. The scene highlights the fidelity of spatial data translated into the .vox format, with visible color gradients and sharp edges typical of voxelized assets.
August 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Just finished up the algorithm for converting Octrees to .vox models!
#gamedev #indiedev #voxel
August 6, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Different camera angle for a PathTraced Voxel scene full of tiny cubes!
#gamedev #indiedev #voxel
A realistic Voxel rendering, based on a Sparse Voxel Octree Directed Acyclic Graph. The pathtracer is rendering the voxel normals of the scene.
July 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Another showcase of new PathTracer for a Sparse Voxel Octree Directed Acyclic Graph with a depth of 16. The pathtracer is rendering the normals of a voxel scene.
#voxel #gamedev #indiedev
A highly detailed Voxel scene using a experimental pathtracer with OpenGL and C++, this is in development for a renderer, voxelizer and editor that will be available to the public in the future.
July 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Experimental PathTracer for a Sparse Voxel Octree Directed Acyclic Graph. And Yes, these are Voxels like Minecraft.
#voxel #indiedev #gamedev
This Sparse Voxel Octree Directed Acyclic Graph has a depth of 16, rendering tiny voxels or otherwise known as 3d pixels to create this very detailed volumetric scene. A experimental pathtracer is being used to render this scene, allowing for better quality and smoothing visual artifacts.
July 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Level 16 SVDAG, voxels so tiny it’s giving low poly vibes!
#voxel #lowpoly #gamedev
Rendered visualization of a Level 16 Sparse Voxel Directed Acyclic Graph (SVDAG) representing a 3D scene. The voxel cubes are extremely small due to the high level of detail, giving the appearance of a low-polygon model while retaining volumetric voxel structure. 3D rendering of a Level 16 SVDAG showing densely packed, small voxel cubes. The high subdivision results in fine-grained voxel geometry that visually resembles a low-poly mesh but preserves full volumetric data.
July 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Sparse Voxel Directed Acyclic Graphs to a MagicaVoxel .vox file.

Saw someone request this so I've started development on a tool so you can export high resolution voxel models into your favourite tools.

#voxel #gamedev #coding
A Sparse Voxel Octree Directed Acyclic Graph converted into a MagicaVoxel .vox file. Allowing for other third-party tools and software to benefit from this data structure.
July 8, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Quick showcase of how voxels bring something unique to games.

I believe games should be more than static spaces, they should be interactive, dynamic, and reactive. Voxels open up a world where environments aren't just scenery, but part of the gameplay itself.

#VoxelArt #IndieDev #GameDev
June 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Side view sprint! 🦊💨
Our voxel fox is on the move, cute, colorful, and running strong!
(Some flickers here and there, but it adds to the charm 🎨⚡)

#VoxelArt #Voxel #Animation #GameDev #3DArt #IndieDev #LowPoly #Animated #DevShowcase
June 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Face-to-face with the Voxel Fox 🦊💫
Cute, colorful, and staring right at you!
(Still a little color flicker, call it charm 🎨✨)

#VoxelArt #3DAnimation #IndieDev #GameDev #DigitalArt #Art #Showcase
June 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Voxel Fox coming to life 🦊✨
A cute little animation—now with color!
(Watch out for a bit of color flicker 🎨🔁)

#VoxelArt #3DAnimation #IndieDev #GameDev #CuteAnimation #LowPoly #DigitalArt #DevLog #CGI
June 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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⬜ Tiny Voxels ⬜
A voxel fox rendered with NVIDIAs Efficient Sparse Voxel Octree Raymarching technique and Symmetry Aware encoding allowing for tiny voxels. A Fox made out of millions of tiny voxels , this picture shows the true scale of the tiny voxels.
June 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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A new animation experiment using sparse voxel DAGs — featuring a animated fox.

The idea is deduplicating dags through time.

#voxels #gamedev #animation
June 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Level Of Detail of a Compressed SVDAG. 😍
May 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Spawning Voxel Spheres within a Uncompressed SVDAG. 😁
May 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Voxel Spheres in Motion
Sphere collisions inside an uncompressed SVDAG.
May 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Color compression! Alpha/transparency isnt added yet, which is why glass is white.
April 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM